From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:06:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20141029.070616.369624083.wl@gnu.org> References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414562811 12635 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 06:06:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 07:06:44 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 1XjMP5-00011P-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:06:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjMP5-0000qF-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59931) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjMOv-0000lZ-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:06:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjMOn-00042j-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:53417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjMOn-000426-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from gnu.org ([91.115.88.132]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M39zL-1Y2ocj4BRn-00sshd; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:06:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 25.0.50.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:BZ2+m4FAEihIJrk27N5TsPMSF0XTR8qC9xAf9fME1IrDg2YQdSO 68YKAmC+ayazYkGMYFViz5clejbX/KspriNN7oQdIOBc+HHNLBL43cil4rX9qFZVVMxgG/G 4bqwT4BW2TofyCJZX1c57IffalaeTqXVggI6L8UFT/oF/SC8KFjzFk/ERiRYeMDUghNgAp5 NkmwTpQMnd8cIai5OIL+Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.15 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:175964 Archived-At: > FWIW I have basically never used Bzr's revno in conversations. > There's no question that they're handy, and I've used them, but I > think that dates work well enough in practice as a replacement (with > pretty much the same downsides). Just replace > > "That was fixed in revision 118147, have you updated since then?" > with > "That was fixed on Sep 23, have you updated since then?" `git describe' and/or `git describe --tags' returns sequential numbers, more or less. It's essentially a tool to do the opposite, this is, showing the most recent tag that is reachable from a given commit, but it contains the number of commits in its return value. Werner