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 21:48:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83601jc6qk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pnzrckq7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531507651 17948 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 18:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:47:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 20:47:27 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 1fe36D-0004Xd-ER for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe38K-00053R-GN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe36r-0004pV-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe36o-0006Sw-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53587) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe36n-0006Ss-W2; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4705 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fe36n-0003WL-D3; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:48:01 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:17:40 -0400) 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:227364 Archived-At: > From: John Yates > Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:17:40 -0400 > Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, Emacs developers > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 9:46 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > They will stop being useful if we ever change our VCS. > > One of the glories of ESR's moving Emacs from bzr to git is > degree to which he translated many such constructs. Were > Emacs to move to another VCS surely there would be some > similar translation activity. I doubt that such IDs would be > much of a stumbling block. They were the last time, and it's at ESR's request that we decided to use those. It wasn't an arbitrary decision out of thin air. We discussed that at the time. You are welcome to read those discussions and raise arguments that were not voiced back there.