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: Git transition checklist Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:22:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389212598 10347 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 20:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 21:23:24 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 1W0zet-0006pq-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 21:23:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zes-0002E8-TD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:23:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zej-0002Dw-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:23:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zec-0002e7-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0zeb-0002e2-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ300M00N335Y00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:23:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ300M7ZNAG4P20@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 22:23:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:167806 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:11:04 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii : > > If I run the above git command in the Emacs git repo, I get this: > > > > $ git describe --tags > > mh-e-8.5-4522-gaa5ae3b > > > > I doubt that we want this. We want the git sha1 value of the last > > commit instead, I think. > > Why? If the repo has proper release tags (which it will - I'm going to > do that), knowing the offset from the last release conveys more information > than a lump of SHA1. "Proper release tags" are something for humans to remember doing, and so is unreliable. If we want more information, we can make "git log" command that will provide that, e.g., the commit date and time. And of course what you call "the lump of SHA1" is the most beautiful thing in the whole world, so why should we be shy of that?