From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:13:06 +0200 Message-ID: <871v1js48d.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87sju2hoee.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87pqp6vn3p.fsf@wanadoo.es> <874o6iicxp.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <83mxkapb2g.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkoat20x.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83liztyeed.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipuxu3hb.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87aag9tt7e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hbagsr1x.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301847367 6286 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2011 16:16:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 16:16:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 03 18:16:04 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 1Q6Pxs-0000b6-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:16:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6Pvv-0006j9-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49702 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6Pvj-0006he-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:13:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6PvU-0001rM-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6PvU-0001rF-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6PvS-0000f7-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.59.5.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:13:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w2fQ7YG7eHqolh1OkcVIqn4qBUU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:138088 Archived-At: Uday S Reddy writes: [snip] >> But even on that case we would be better without the arithmetic. Think a >> feature branch with dozens or hundreds of commits. And I'm not talking >> just about commit messages. References on bug reports or e-mail >> exchanges suffer from the same. > > In that case, you are talking about a tradeoff, what will be easier to > the committer versus what will be easier for somebody to analyze > things later on. My feeling is that committing is done much more > often and doing additional chores in the middle of committing is > distracting. So I would want to make it easier for committing. I see that as a tradeoff writer vs readers. As explained elsewhere, you write things once but they are read lots of times. It is the same case as naming functions and writing comments. [snip]