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: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301619322 29145 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 00:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 02:55:18 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 1Q5Sdv-0006qU-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Sdv-0001jS-H2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54318 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Sdr-0001jD-FG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Sdq-0007OF-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:31416 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Sdq-0007O9-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:10 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFkhlU1FxKsL/2dsb2JhbAClWXiIebgdhWsEli0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,279,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="99385013" 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; 31 Mar 2011 20:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A617958F8C; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22=D3scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:47:27 +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:137963 Archived-At: > So, if you wish to refer to another revision on the commit message (or > anywhere else) please use the revision id, which is unique for every > commit. Agreed. In the past we've also used dates as in "fix 2009-10-07 change", which aren't as precise as rev-ids and might prove ambiguous, but are more stable than rev-nbs and more readable than rev-ids (especially when reading the ChangeLog where the dates are available). Stefan