From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:28:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvmyvrw7.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140303220021.GD3841@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:00:21 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Hi, Andreas.
>
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:23:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> > Being able to refer to commits directly is very useful, and especially
>> > in Git where revision identifiers (hashes) are global.
>
>> Using only the hash is frowned upon, the best practice is to follow it
>> with the subject of the commit message.
>
> Is this because the hashes don't count as human-readable, in contrast to
> the sequential revision numbers that other systems (such as bzr and hg)
> use?
Neither revision numbers nor hashes are readable.
Andreas.
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2014-03-03 17:09 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-03 17:31 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-03 18:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-03 18:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-03-03 18:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-03 19:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-03 21:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-03 22:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-03-03 22:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-03-03 22:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-03-03 22:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-04 8:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-04 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-04 0:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-04 17:28 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-04 18:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-04 18:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-04 18:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
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