From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:40:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87sju2hoee.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87pqp6vn3p.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874o6iicxp.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <83mxkapb2g.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkoat20x.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83liztyeed.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipuxu3hb.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301694140 7758 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 21:42:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 21:42:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 23:42:16 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 1Q5m6e-0004bx-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5m6d-0001IE-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:42:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57024 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5m6Y-0001I9-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5m6X-0006GT-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5m6W-0006GP-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:42:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5m6U-0004Qr-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:42:02 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:42:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: <87ipuxu3hb.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:138042 Archived-At: On 4/1/2011 9:21 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: > > So you are in favor of using revnos when you know that the revision you > are referencing is on trunk, and revids otherwise? Dear Oscar, In the subthread started by Stephen Turnbull, I have argued that it is easy enough to decode revision numbers as long as they are referring to the mainline or the local branch. He has agreed with that argument. Can you comment on whether this convention suits you? Cheers, Uday