From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:51:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tyeivni1.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ei5mvij7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301669508 24833 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 14:51:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:51:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Fuentes , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?=, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 16:51:44 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 1Q5fhO-0006Ah-GT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:51:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5fhN-0003S9-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33875 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5fhD-0003Qg-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:51:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5fhC-0002lb-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:51:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38156 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5fhC-0002lP-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:51:30 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEABbllU1FxKsL/2dsb2JhbAClVniIebkvhWsEljQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,282,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="102479856" Original-Received: from 69-196-171-11.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.171.11]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Apr 2011 10:51:28 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9329958F8C; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:51:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:45:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:137997 Archived-At: > It does happen that we're using a bound branch for trunk (that's the > recommended setup), so again, you're arguing pretty convincingly for > an hypothetical situation, and I'm discussing the here-and-now. Some of the rev-numbers that appear in the ChangeLog on the lexbind branch are not correct (because they refer to revnos on the `trunk'). In most cases I can figure out from circumstantial evidence what was the intended meaning, but using revnos is just not a good idea. Noone will be hung or lynched for it, but I encourage people to use other ways to refer to changes, e.g. rev-ids or dates. Stefan