From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Timur Aydin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:47:20 +0200 Message-ID: <52D1C9F8.7020607@taydin.org> References: <20140111155429.1A12C3803A6@snark.thyrsus.com> <877ga6h4fw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140111164048.GB15806@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389482770 22007 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 23:26:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:26:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 12 00:26:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W27wX-0006Md-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:26:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W27wW-0000yY-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37786) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W27wQ-0000yR-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:26:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W27wL-0000lG-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:26:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [85.105.129.209] (port=45269 helo=mail.taydin.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W27wL-0000kR-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:26:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (mail.taydin.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.taydin.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 135555C0077 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:47:20 +0200 (EET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20140111164048.GB15806@thyrsus.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 85.105.129.209 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168132 Archived-At: On 01/11/14 18:40, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > David Kastrup : >> Would it be an option to leave the original commits unchanged but add a >> "note" to it containing the git commit id? > > Theoretically, yes. Realistically, the notes facility is one of those > historical polyps hanging off the side of git that receives little > attention and less tool support. As with the git bundle facility, I > fear becoming a victim of bitrot and would prefer not to rely on it at > all. What about _appending_ the git hash to the commit message? That way, the bzr revision id would still be there. That way, discussions on this list, other mailing lists, newsgroups and the web in general where bzr revision id's are mentioned would continue to be useful. -- Timur