From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:45 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20180713204745.GA13835@thyrsus.com> References: <85f9a968-ba72-5b00-761e-a4449b073a7f@cs.ucla.edu> <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> <20180713190615.GA10799@thyrsus.com> <8336wnc4si.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531524796 29522 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 23:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 23:33:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 14 01:33:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fe7Yl-0007bu-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:33:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe7as-0003lX-Pr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4yk-0000Or-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4yj-0005SG-8V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:50 -0400 Original-Received: from thyrsus.com ([71.162.243.5]:46792 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe4yf-0005NC-Jy; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 533733A4AA7; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:47:45 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:34:11 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227381 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > On 07/13/2018 02:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I think generating the RFC3339 time stamps is more error-prone than > > the "normal" date/time, especially if you copy/paste the latter from > > the Git log. > > Could we make it easier to generate an action stamp from the commit ID > or from a position in a VC log buffer when editing a later commit > message? The idea is to have something that is easier and more reliable > than the current process, where I manually convert the timestamp format > and time zone. I'm not surprised that others don't want to bother with > doing that. We have this tool called "Emacs".... -- Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineering Institute: https://icei.org Please visit their site and donate: the civilization you save might be your own.