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: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:02 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20140912084002.GC32586@thyrsus.com> References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140912083430.GA32586@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 1410511270 6805 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2014 08:41:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 08:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 10:41:05 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 1XSMPd-0007Mw-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:41:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMPd-0001ie-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMPL-0001gA-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMPH-0002ds-5K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:32771 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSMPB-0002c7-7N; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5860380604; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> 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:174199 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond : > > Btw, what is here? Is that the author or the > > committer? > > The committer. > > This choice helps avoid collisions. It is unlikely that one > committer will ever manage two commits in the same clock second. > Slightly less ulikely that two different committers at different > consoles will check in a patch from a different author. I meant "a different author who happens to be the same person". -- Eric S. Raymond