From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:35:43 +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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301956603 7918 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 22:36:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nils Ackermann , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 05 00:36:37 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 1Q6sNt-0001z4-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:36:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6sNs-0006IZ-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38901 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6sNk-0006IS-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sNj-0004Mt-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:65364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sNj-0004Mj-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so4677272qwa.0 for ; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:36:23 -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:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rVwWA4Ym6TIoDY+FvWcR7PmiT8AMhduzQuFvyTuu5JA=; b=X1w0mn8S8R4GpBRW1Y7Yz3hxohs6SZaJ0YasHEZSjA1Y+N1e8TAMoJKh2ikhGhPzBm FG9e41Hfk/UrR3su/G92rC1ui7hf16h6pKzah3ZC6kLzBO+kCaaRnX4C71Q2uqY4CA9m NNEU6OyoSEDd+Ie/A1yGZ5YXukv4fgsQnRpiA= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=QW00UtxUSYYHtD080oQbUPd70CWwljKWnyKHbKboD024+E3ohioXtiUnK6mieAkCya bPQBxa9JYqM2RZz+SM4W30+Pp87lSMoRAqibNo04j6Nc4iASaFDsXg5ekjkTDJbz4YkG qS8CrlRocg0TnqwB0HnZEzvJgr2PFYEm9V7TQ= Original-Received: by 10.229.62.209 with SMTP id y17mr5773203qch.196.1301956583124; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.229.6.17 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:35:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 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:138165 Archived-At: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 00:27, Stefan Monnier wro= te: > Agreed, rev-ids are inconvenient to use (and really ugly: SHA-1 hashes > are visually stunning in comparison). Irony, on emacs-devel? Shame on you, Stefan, shame on you. > That's why I use dates instead. > They're also good in ChangeLog since the date can be used the find the > relevant commit without using Bzr at all. I couldn't agree more; that's why I usually write the revno *and* the date = ;-) =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Juanma