From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:28:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87fvmyvrw7.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140303180952.GA3841@acm.acm> <874n3fccji.fsf@yandex.ru> <87ob1nugc5.fsf@igel.home> <20140303220021.GD3841@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393885711 13270 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2014 22:28:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs developers , Dmitry Gutov To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 23:28:39 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 1WKbLj-0007pX-IZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:28:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKbLj-0006Dh-4d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKbLb-0006DP-Px for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKbLX-0005gz-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:28:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:59356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKbLX-0005gq-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fdGGK6XHKz3hjkJ; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:28:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fdGGK6NgSzbbcW; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:28:25 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id z07eYQ2s5AmP; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:28:25 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: wPo0eMJbLHiYg9GxZa6YJUaY5y9Ggxq+Sqw4qGrQOKo= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-38-151.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.38.151]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:28:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E40062C07A3; Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:28:24 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: You can't hurt me!! I have an ASSUMABLE MORTGAGE!! In-Reply-To: <20140303220021.GD3841@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:00:21 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1 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:170109 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hi, Andreas. > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:23:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> Dmitry Gutov writes: > >> > Being able to refer to commits directly is very useful, and especially >> > in Git where revision identifiers (hashes) are global. > >> Using only the hash is frowned upon, the best practice is to follow it >> with the subject of the commit message. > > Is this because the hashes don't count as human-readable, in contrast to > the sequential revision numbers that other systems (such as bzr and hg) > use? Neither revision numbers nor hashes are readable. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."