From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:59:19 +0300 Message-ID: <834lh3c67s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85f9a968-ba72-5b00-761e-a4449b073a7f@cs.ucla.edu> <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531508277 30616 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 18:57:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 20:57:53 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 1fe3GJ-0007p0-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:57:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3IQ-0007zp-Ub for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3Hk-0007zW-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3Hh-0007Hr-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:59:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53825) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3Hh-0007Hf-Dg; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1424 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fe3Hh-0007RK-0N; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:59:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180713181520.GD28072@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:227366 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:15:20 -0400 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: Emacs developers > > I'm against this change because I think in the long term. Someday Emacs > will change VCSes again. On the day, whoever is charged with the move is > going to curse the perpetrators if he has to deal with a semi-infinite number > of variant ways of pasting together the data and commit parts of your > proposed IDs. I think the idea is that the date/time and the header line identify the commit well enough to be able to find it using VCS commands. > I know of two efforts underway to make cgit and git itself aware of the > action-stamp format. Have patience. Soon enough you'll be able to treat > action stampts as hotlinks that your software will chase for you. 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.