From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:10:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <85f9a968-ba72-5b00-761e-a4449b073a7f@cs.ucla.edu> <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> <20180713190615.GA10799@thyrsus.com> <8336wnc4si.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531512569 7510 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 20:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:09:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 22:09:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4NY-0001q4-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:09:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4Pf-0007tp-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4Oz-0007tX-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4Oy-0008Nz-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:33016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4Ou-0008Jo-9I; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CAE160D70; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id aoqZwlkQq29t; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EA6160D75; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id GTjsnK3VbbeE; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.8] (ip72-206-6-38.fv.ks.cox.net [72.206.6.38]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A01F160D70; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:10:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8336wnc4si.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227373 Archived-At: On 07/13/2018 02:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I think generating the RFC3339 time stamps is more error-prone than > the "normal" date/time, especially if you copy/paste the latter from > the Git log. Could we make it easier to generate an action stamp from the commit ID or from a position in a VC log buffer when editing a later commit message? The idea is to have something that is easier and more reliable than the current process, where I manually convert the timestamp format and time zone. I'm not surprised that others don't want to bother with doing that.