From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Repo cpnversion progress report Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:01 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140130214201.GA9204@thyrsus.com> References: <20140130195557.GA8405@thyrsus.com> <83iot16u66.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391118130 19890 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2014 21:42:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:42:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 30 22:42:18 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 1W8zNJ-0008RU-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:42:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8zNJ-000465-L1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8zND-000460-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8zN9-00079I-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:56718 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W8zN3-00074f-Ud; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:01 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3CC6D380522; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:42:01 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83iot16u66.fsf@gnu.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:169255 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii : > The list of bzr revisions in changecomment lines is still too short, > about one third of the real list. I went through the putput of bzr log --levels 0 with grep and eyeball last night; those are what I found. It would be helpful if you were to supply what you think of as the real list. > Also, it looks like you are going to _replace_ the revision numbers > with the time stamp, not just _add_ the time stamp? If so, I strongly > suggest to leave the revision numbers intact, so that we don't lose > information. After we change over, the Bazaar revision numbers will be meaningless except as keys to a map file which is just going to associate them with the action stamps I'm replacing them with. Please explain what information you think is being lost here, because I don't get it. > > # Remove every .cvsignore not older than when .gitignores were > > # first added. Then rename all remaining (older) .cvsignores to > > # corresponding .gitignore paths; the syntax is upward-compatible. > > # The date marks the introduction of .gitignore files. > > This looks gratuitous and loses information. I think you shouldn't be > doing that. What would you do instead? What information do you believe the newer .cvsignores carry that the .bzrignores and .gitignores do not? -- Eric S. Raymond