From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:04:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4qpuk10.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <9e4mtd1cdi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87r3whkw6w.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87388xw2pn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87oarlkqp0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417601074 29155 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 10:04:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 10:04:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 11:04:28 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 1Xw6nM-0000c4-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40639 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw6nM-00035P-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw6n8-00035K-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:04:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw6n7-0005Ms-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw6n7-0005Mn-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57786 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xw6n6-0006kq-0G; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 05:04:12 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 84E18E05E7; Wed, 3 Dec 2014 11:04:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87oarlkqp0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:50:19 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:178721 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > This is a distributed version control system. > > IIUC, Glenn isn't interested in the "many repositories" sharing the > common history. He's interested in the "official" repository > (actually, his local mirror of that, but that's a distinction that > makes no difference to his use case). From that point of view, it > makes perfect sense to talk about when a commit was pushed to a > particular repository. But that does not tell you what made it part of which history in which branch. There is arrived just now. This puts a signature not on the act of creating an object but rather of moving a reference (branch HEAD or tag). For some workflows, that might be interesting. I doubt that it is what Glenn had in mind. -- David Kastrup