From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: handa@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
rozzin@geekspace.com
Subject: Re: Can anyone correct the Bazaar reference "revno:111954.1.97"?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 00:49:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140303054922.GB9790@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9d7sv3i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
>
> > I expect the trunk commit is what a person reading that comment
> > would want to refer back to - but, as previously noted, the
> > question gets a bit philosophical.
>
> Sure, but it's also pragmatic. The Emacs workflow does have a
> distinguished mainline. While Emacs developers often use branches
> privately, they communicate with each other about changes by merging
> to trunk, rather than by posting a branch URL. If this merge causes a
> problem, the fix is then committed to trunk. (In projects with a
> formalized workflow, this is often referred to as commit-and-review.)
>
> So, pragmatically, trunk is the obvious default point of reference
> unless explicitly specified otherwise -- and there're really nothing
> else that would serve. These references are also stable as long as
> appropriate push controls are in effect.
>
> I don't see any good reason for you to avoid that convention.
Not trying to. In my current lift script the patch for that reference
does point to the trunk commit.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-03 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-01 17:13 Can anyone correct the Bazaar reference "revno:111954.1.97"? Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-01 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-01 18:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-01 21:35 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-01 22:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-02 3:47 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 18:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 20:01 ` Policy on referencing/abbreviating git commit-IDs, going forward? (was: Can anyone correct the Bazaar reference "revno:111954.1.97"?) Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 20:30 ` Policy on referencing/abbreviating git commit-IDs, going forward? Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 21:18 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 20:35 ` Can anyone correct the Bazaar reference "revno:111954.1.97"? Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 21:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 5:53 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 18:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 21:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 22:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-03 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-03 3:40 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-03 5:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-03 5:49 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-03-02 19:08 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-02 22:00 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2014-03-02 22:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-02 22:22 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
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