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: Policy on referencing/abbreviating git commit-IDs, going forward? Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:30:09 +0100 Message-ID: <87sir0gx7y.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140301171337.53CC638073E@snark.thyrsus.com> <8338j1vkta.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvn17gbc.fsf@slice.rozzin.com> <20140301220207.GC19461@thyrsus.com> <87eh2l5kif.fsf@slice.rozzin.com> <83iorwtrzd.fsf@gnu.org> <871tykihi1.fsf@igel.home> <87r46kv07l.fsf_-_@slice.rozzin.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393792236 22682 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2014 20:30:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 20:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, handa@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Joshua Judson Rosen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 02 21:30:39 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 1WKD1x-0004O5-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:30:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKD1w-0006Bs-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55245) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKD1k-0006Bm-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKD1e-00013w-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKD1Y-00012y-MF; Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:30:12 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fcbhM0r8Gz4KK2S; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 21:30:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fcbhL2P9Qzbbfy; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 21:30:10 +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 5h-bhgT9KUSm; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 21:30:09 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: nOCnyd3YTJF5rchUdAbqOTpZ3LcqtkzdbS9r+B1O2xE= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-46-244-229-25.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.229.25]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 21:30:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 526D72C1B2D; Sun, 2 Mar 2014 21:30:09 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Now I'm being INVOLUNTARILY shuffled closer to the CLAM DIP with the BROKEN PLASTIC FORKS in it!! In-Reply-To: <87r46kv07l.fsf_-_@slice.rozzin.com> (Joshua Judson Rosen's message of "Sun, 02 Mar 2014 15:01:50 -0500") 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: 212.18.0.9 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:170066 Archived-At: Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > abbreviation ambiguous, how will you trace out the now-ambiguously- > abbreviated commit? e.g.: up through July 29 2012, "7a62fbf" > unambiguously identified a commit from October 24 2007; on July 30 2012, > "7a62fbf" stopped being unambiguous. If you know it was previsouly unambiguous you know that it refers to the older one. 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."