From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:36:17 +0100 Message-ID: <877ga6fe7y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20140111155429.1A12C3803A6@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140111172700.GA16151@thyrsus.com> <83fvou9yyu.fsf@gnu.org> <83eh4e9ysh.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389472578 18731 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 20:36:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Eli Zaretskii , Emacs-Devel devel To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 21:36:25 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 1W25I9-0002mA-ED for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W25I9-0006jq-3D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:36:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W25I5-0006jW-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:36:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W25I2-0001IM-Ol for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:36:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W25I2-0001II-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:36:18 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35879 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W25I2-0007EV-0V; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:36:18 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 90900E0905; Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:36:17 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (David Reitter's message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:13:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:168120 Archived-At: David Reitter writes: > Eric, > > Here's an idea - why don't you just tag each referenced revision in > git with the bzr revision id, e.g., > > git tag 'bzr/115967' de7d9800 > > That would make it trivial and seamless to find a reference later on. > I would update the change log files to use the same bzr/ prefix. > > You can do this after the transition is done, and if people don't like > it, they can undo it in the future. Aaaaaaand we have a winner. The only downside is that a list of all current tags will be, uhm, unpretty. But it is so already. And when tagging only every _referenced_ version, this should not be too bad. -- David Kastrup