From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:05:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83fu0nch1o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pnzrckq7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531494266 22932 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 15:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 17:04:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzcL-0005rn-EI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:04:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzeS-0007Hb-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42422) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzdN-00077d-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzdM-0004Cq-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48370) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzdM-0004Ck-6c; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2839 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fdzdI-0000sZ-Fr; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:05:21 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Andy Moreton on Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:01:28 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227345 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > 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.