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: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:27:15 -0400 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301956051 5089 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 22:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 22:27:31 +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 00:27:26 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 1Q6sF3-0005dY-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:27:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6sF3-0007T8-AY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37738 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6sEx-0007Sx-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sEw-0001yg-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:36496 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sEw-0001yB-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:27:18 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAJ5Emk1Ld/Y6/2dsb2JhbAClZHiIeboWhWsElj8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,300,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="103163335" Original-Received: from 75-119-246-58.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.246.58]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Apr 2011 18:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C702B58C5B; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:27:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:27:57 +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:138163 Archived-At: >> As recently as a year ago there was a discussion on new ideas for >> calculating revision numbers: > I'll be happy to switch to using revids as soon as they give the users > more convenient way to handle them. The current schema of > email-yyyymmddhhmmss-randomshit does not give itself easily to > abbreviation. Agreed, rev-ids are inconvenient to use (and really ugly: SHA-1 hashes are visually stunning in comparison). 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. Stefan