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: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:35:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> <87fve7b6p7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029095248.GA14601@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414586177 10861 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 12:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 13:36:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSTr-00037l-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSTp-0000Pg-HQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:36:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46781) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSTe-0000LN-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSTX-0001wy-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:35:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:4289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjSTO-0001vs-Q8; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:35:35 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au4MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBBwIBH5EIB4RLBZ8Sg0mNNIIRgW+EFCGCegEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: Au4MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIhLCctyAQEBBwIBH5EIB4RLBZ8Sg0mNNIIRgW+EFCGCegEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="95499841" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Oct 2014 08:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C43FF7ABE; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:35:33 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20141029095248.GA14601@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:52:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175978 Archived-At: > About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional > GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bulleted > items in it any more. That's your opinion, but the convention we still use here (and don't just recommend but *request* people to follow) is the GNU ChangeLog format. > We're no longer in CVS-land, commits are cheap, Don't know yet about Git, but I can assure you that in Bzr-land, commits are not cheap (things like "bzr merge", "bzr annotate" and many others have time complexities that depend on the number of commits). > make them fine-grained. Fine-grained or not is irrelevant. What they should be is logical/coherent. Your recent 20 or so single-line commits which all have the same summary line is the perfect example of what should *not* be done. Stefan