From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:36:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83d3l5yahl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k4fevkc1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83wrjepepy.fsf@gnu.org> <874o6iugpt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ei5lycis.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcyx7n6i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301690564 20726 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 20:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 22:42:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5lAx-0007bJ-0V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:42:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5lAn-0008VG-TZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:42:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51325 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5l5a-0005lB-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:38:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5l5T-00005T-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:41563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5l5R-0008VF-W5; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIZ00I00QISPE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:36:52 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIZ00HY1QLFRW90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:36:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vcyx7n6i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138034 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:04:53 +0200 > > > And I was trying to say that you won't find more than a very small > > number of examples of long-living (as opposed to long dead) branches. > > Well, the Unicode branch was certainly one of the most impressively > long-lived branches. Multitty had a non-trivial life-time as well, and > lexbind has been around for even longer than Unicode IIRC. I had all those in mind. 3 or 4 are still very small numbers, and you are talking about what? 4 years?