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 11:02:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkoapff5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834o6iquye.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301644992 8600 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 08:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 10:03:08 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 1Q5ZJz-0005Zt-OC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:03:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5ZJz-0006ia-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47771 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5ZJq-0006iH-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5ZJp-0004uy-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:43902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5ZJp-0004ui-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIY00700ROPWY00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:02:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIY00659RORZAD0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:02:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:137972 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: Lennart Borgman , ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:58:38 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Lennart Borgman > >> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:36:07 +0200 > >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> > So, if you wish to refer to another revision on the commit message (or > >> > anywhere else) please use the revision id, which is unique for every > >> > commit. > >> > >> Why not both rev number and rev id? > > > > Why not the whole DAG, dammit? > > The rev id _is_ the whole DAG. But if I don't have some of the branches, those parts of the DAG are not on my machine. And I want to have them, pronto.