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: Fixing repository conversion errors. Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:07 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141113183106.GA12320@thyrsus.com> References: <20141113031255.GA21938@thyrsus.com> <20141113114308.GA30912@thyrsus.com> <20141113092024526768767@bob.proulx.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 1415903516 17026 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2014 18:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:31:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bob Proulx , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 19:31:50 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 1XozBN-0000no-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:31:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XozBN-0007w1-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XozBF-0007ul-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XozBB-0002US-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:41 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:50059 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XozBB-0002UN-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:37 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F5A0382D2A; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:31:07 -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:176991 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >> We need a procedure for this - I don't want us to lose another day and > >> a half. Copying Bob Proulx. Here's how I think it should go: > > Please don't. This revision number is redundant data (e.g. I never > include it in my commit message when I do those merges) and the > corresponding revid is trivially available already. > I prefer to live with it than having to rebase my branches yet again. OK, maintainer directive that the present glitches are not worth fixing accepted. But I would still like to have the procedure in place in case in case anything more serious comes up. -- Eric S. Raymond