From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Repo cpnversion progress report Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:04:21 +0200 Message-ID: <8338k35c22.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140130195557.GA8405@thyrsus.com> <83iot16u66.fsf@gnu.org> <20140130214201.GA9204@thyrsus.com> <83ha8k7fp0.fsf@gnu.org> <87iot0f481.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> <20140131181612.GA18170@thyrsus.com> <20140131215124.GB19192@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391252687 13235 80.91.229.3 (1 Feb 2014 11:04:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 11:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 01 12:04:53 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 1W9YNY-0007Dd-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:04:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37008 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9YNY-0002HQ-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55990) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9YNR-0002GC-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9YNM-0001US-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:04:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:47281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9YNM-0001U7-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0B00100CW25300@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:04:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N0B0016XDFP1U60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 13:04:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:169320 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:16:25 -0500 > Cc: Karl Fogel , Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I know I won't be using any external data file because I need such > a thing rarely enough that I won't remember where the file is or which > command to use for that. > > Also they're rare enough that it's OK if it takes a while to figure out > what it's referring to. > > > Here's an example of a user story: Someone is reading the emacs-devel > > archives and reads mail containing a reference to an Emacs change by > > Bazaar revision. How does he get to the corresponding git revision? > > He doesn't and moves on. Or he goes back to the old Bzr repository to > figure it out. We could have a VC command that consults an external file with the mapping. We could even display the results of such mapping in a tooltip or in a display property. Then the need to remember will disappear. I do agree (and thought so from the get-go) that conversion of old revision references to time stamps is a lot of effort for little gain.