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: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:36:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83mxkapb2g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87sju2hoee.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87pqp6vn3p.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874o6iicxp.fsf@ambire.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301650638 8901 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 09:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 11:37:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5an4-0007Mm-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:37:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5an3-0006Ta-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46316 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5amy-0006TI-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5amx-0001DE-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:41295) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5amx-0001D8-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LIY00800VW65K00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:36:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.47.180]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LIY0075CW1GXK40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:36:54 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874o6iicxp.fsf@ambire.localdomain> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137979 Archived-At: > From: Thien-Thi Nguyen > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:38:26 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > [1:text/plain Hide] > () =C3=93scar Fuentes > () Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:20:26 +0200 >=20 > It is actually informative, although it makes difficult to pinpo= int the > mentioned revision or to answer the question "is the mentioned r= evision on > branch X?" which is automatic when you have a revision id. >=20 > To dereference a DATE-TITLE pair to a VCS commit the VCS needs to b= e able to > grep for DATE or TITLE or both in its (internal) commit log represe= ntation. > It's an extra step, true, and might be difficult if the VCS is lame= . Our VCS isn't lame: bzr log -r date:2011-03-31,23:59:59..date:2011-04-01,23:59:59 > Likewise for localizing the commit to a branch. bzr log -c revno:12345:../mybranch