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: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:17 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140201042617.GC20638@thyrsus.com> References: <20140130195557.GA8405@thyrsus.com> <83iot16u66.fsf@gnu.org> <20140130214201.GA9204@thyrsus.com> <83ha8k7fp0.fsf@gnu.org> <87iot0f481.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <20140131181612.GA18170@thyrsus.com> <20140131215124.GB19192@thyrsus.com> 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 1391228788 29579 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2014 04:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 04:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 01 05:26:36 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 1W9SA6-0003oo-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 05:26:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9SA5-0004H2-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52936) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9S9z-0004Gj-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9S9u-0001zI-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:39576 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9S9p-0001wS-Ob; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 35352380695; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:26:17 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:169311 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > To reduce the load, you can just skip the "conversion to action stamps". I've already paid the time and complexity cost for that. There's not really a savings there. > For fixes it's very different. The way it works is: vc-annotate tells > me the code was changed in commit NNNN and that commit says it's linked > to bug#MMMM so I go check bug#MMMM to try and understand why the code is > the way it is. This is a fairly common occurrence, and it's common to > use the bug#NNNN reference as an "excuse" to keep the commit log > shorter, so it's important to preserve this info. I agree. This goes on the list of use cases that needs to be supported -- Eric S. Raymond