From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:03:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k4fevkc1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87zko6rn8y.fsf@thysbe.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301954667 29656 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 22:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nils Ackermann , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 00:04:23 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 1Q6rsj-0001K5-Lu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:04:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39939 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6rsi-00064U-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:04:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50838 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6rs1-0005wz-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6rrz-00027T-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:37846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6rrz-00026r-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: by eyd9 with SMTP id 9so1889167eyd.0 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=yWpeAOsNEF7KPJWg+DSEFpyrgSJrPoLbUs2l0aisyRo=; b=r+LqFAWrYrTeEfZKIfepnXcPqO4QA1xGw8d6xZkPmdezOA3DcycvBFu4CnuweaGsk+ q/kbg4b8PiGA7pMS159XIzUdb0X1aCqxM12qgHYoM7bukJsN8wOExvWT4Ghl/LktPaxG tlSP4v9LWmRVfTVi2b/6qdFBSyQbGBPTvMCdI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=Y+Et6rdhxbMHn5MDfgIJTOKCMZMc3npv/rp0t9oBtvXWfY1N612D4qh/xx5hw/Lkyq 8rU0sbClsvuDesE4+WpDrdDCELcKohQliKyT2UGsTqixPJsf0ENmVy13/TyFQb2nJ6mM YgNpzak98zJDvo/f9sXbt89+gMfZaiCF0nSO4= Original-Received: by 10.213.8.203 with SMTP id i11mr1846722ebi.106.1301954614168; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.33.200 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:03:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:138154 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 23:36, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> In what way is it difficult to handle the current schema? (I guess you >> never type the revid?) > > Git ids hare 40-char "random" strings, but they are hashes, so they > vary from the start, and most of the time you get around by typing > just 6 to 8 chars. Bazaar ids are longer (14 char timestamps + 16 char > random string + 2 separators + e-mail, so longer unless the e-mail is > shorter than 8 chars) and for a given year and user, the first > significant character is at (length e-mail) + 5... but even if the > random string were at the start would still be irrelevant because the > Bazaar interface doesn't allow shortening revids. You have to type > them in full. > > If they allowed passing just the random-string part it would be a bit > easier. As it is, you always have to type long strings, or cut&paste > them. Cut&paste is perhaps not that awful. If it really is then perhaps Emacs could provide some completion (if bzr has can support it).