From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:08:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87mxk9n8tl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ei5mvij7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87pqp6m2yg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <19861.65424.828000.109632@gargle.gargle.HOWL> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301681310 32091 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 18:08:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 18:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 20:08:26 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 1Q5ili-000552-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:08:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5ilg-0005OG-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37628 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5ign-0003V0-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5igi-0008Nz-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:49015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5igi-0008NQ-GL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B3397031F; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 03:03:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B93E81A3A82; Sat, 2 Apr 2011 03:08:22 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <19861.65424.828000.109632@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" eac2e6bd5b2c+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:138014 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: > Not really. Since r43 is a reference to a revision _local_ to the > merged branch, it is easy to interpret it as a reference to 42.1.1. You only know it's local to the branch if you have global knowledge of the whole project. But if you do have that knowledge, it doesn't much matter how you make these references.