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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:59:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com)

> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:15:20 -0400
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> I'm against this change because I think in the long term.  Someday Emacs
> will change VCSes again.  On the day, whoever is charged with the move is
> going to curse the perpetrators if he has to deal with a semi-infinite number
> of variant ways of pasting together the data and commit parts of your 
> proposed IDs.

I think the idea is that the date/time and the header line identify
the commit well enough to be able to find it using VCS commands.

> I know of two efforts underway to make cgit and git itself aware of the
> action-stamp format. Have patience.  Soon enough you'll be able to treat
> action stampts as hotlinks that your software will chase for you.

I'm not sure having hyperlinks justifies the trouble of having to
concoct those stamps.  In a repository such as we have in Emacs, a
time stamp should allow you to find the commit fairly easily, I think.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-13  9:13 Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages (WAS: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el) Noam Postavsky
2018-07-13 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 12:59 ` Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 13:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:01     ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 15:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:07     ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:24       ` Yuri Khan
2018-07-13 17:30         ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 18:17     ` John Yates
2018-07-13 18:48       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:25 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 18:15   ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-13 18:59     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-07-13 19:06       ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-13 19:30         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 20:10           ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 20:47             ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-14  7:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 14:38               ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-14 15:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14  9:49         ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-14  2:45     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-14  2:51       ` Brett Gilio

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