From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: resolving ambiguity in action stamps Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:09:10 +0900 Message-ID: <8738bt4ue1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wq9841zx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140913053525.GA15582@thyrsus.com> <87tx4c3t4k.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140913.092630.2301242291023129455.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <20140913105058.GA16776@thyrsus.com> <87r3ze4pw6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140914105531.GA30576@thyrsus.com> <87egve49d9.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140914142117.GA935@thyrsus.com> <878ulm434v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20140914171211.GA2521@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410739787 5742 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2014 00:09:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:09:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 15 02:09:40 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 1XTJrP-0003Vb-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTJrP-0003vN-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTJr7-0003vI-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTJqz-00006C-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:55904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTJqz-0008Si-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:09:13 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A991C3978; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:09:10 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 348951A28C8; Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:09:10 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20140914171211.GA2521@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:174300 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond writes: > Your instinct may be to come back that this approach is too limiting, Not at all. My instinct is to tell you that what is good for a machine designed to do many conversions with very high quality is irrelevant to humans who have trouble keeping their noses snot-free at their most excellent. > It might be easy for you to say "oh, we just regenerate all the commit > references, then". Actually doing that is a nasty, picky job even > with best-in-class tools like mine, especially on a repo this size. OK. Go ahead, do it your way. I don't really care -- I'm highly unlikely to contribute code directly to Emacs anyway.