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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:05:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fu0nch1o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vz1d0vr2n93.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andy Moreton on Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:01:28 +0100)

> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:01:28 +0100
> 
> >> Fixes: 1222ff5275 ("Don't skip epg-tests even with gpg 2.0 (Bug#23561)")
> >
> > We wanted an ID that is not specific to Git, having learned that a
> > hard way from the period we used bzr revision numbers.
> 
> Using the summary line of the commit message is still useful to help
> identify the right changeset (as long as you train popel to stop writing
> bad commit messages like "fix last commit").

Yes, but adding a date makes the reference more precise.

> > They will stop being useful if we ever change our VCS.
> 
> That is unlikely for the forseeable future.

Yes, we thought that way, too, in the past.  We were wrong.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13 15:05 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 [this message]
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
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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