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: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:02:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83fvcw6281.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9e4mtd1cdi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87r3whkw6w.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87388xw2pn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417629786 10679 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 18:03:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 19:02:58 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 1XwEGP-0004un-JI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:02:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwEGO-0005U8-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:02:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwEG6-0005U2-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:02:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwEG1-0008M4-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:02:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:38657) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwEFv-0008LF-PI; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG000C00PY7MR00@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:00:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG0002ZSQ007O90@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:00:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 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:178740 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:18:42 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > So "when a commit was pushed" rather than "committed/created" is > > I think the fundamental thing missing is the "mainline": In Bzr, when > you look at the DAG of the `trunk', you know which commits are on the > mainline and which commits were made on a branch and later merged > onto the mainline. > > In Git, you don't know that because you only have the DAG and the > parents of a merge are "unordered". You can see the "mainline" in Git with "log --graph" or in Emacs with "C-x v L".