From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713190615.GA10799@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> I'm not sure having hyperlinks justifies the trouble of having to
> concoct those stamps. In a repository such as we have in Emacs, a
> time stamp should allow you to find the commit fairly easily, I think.
While this is true, experience leads me to fear a proliferation of
varying and damaged timestamp formats uttered by people in a hurry.
Only a convention as simple and strong as action stamps has any
hope of being effective against this sort of drift.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-13 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-13 9:13 Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages (WAS: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el) Noam Postavsky
2018-07-13 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 12:59 ` Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 13:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:01 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-13 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:07 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:24 ` Yuri Khan
2018-07-13 17:30 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-07-13 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 18:17 ` John Yates
2018-07-13 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 15:25 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 18:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-13 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 19:06 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2018-07-13 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 20:10 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-13 20:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2018-07-14 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 14:38 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-14 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-14 9:49 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-14 2:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-14 2:51 ` Brett Gilio
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