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: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:35:03 +0900 Message-ID: <87fwq2vjnc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301623174 12486 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 01:59:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 01:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 03:59:30 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 1Q5Te5-0000oM-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Te4-0000FA-TC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:59:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49608 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5Te0-0000F2-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Tdz-000075-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:38246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Tdz-00006s-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BF79706B3; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:29:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1E451A35C0; Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:35:03 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" eac2e6bd5b2c+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:137967 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > > If a series of commits on a feature branch mentions one another > > by revison number, after merging them into trunk (or into any > > other branch) those numbers are wrong. > > Isn't that a case of "if it hurts, don't do that"? Sure. But then everything is. "Sometimes Emacs crashes, so don't use Emacs." It is very typical to refer to a parent revision in a feature branch. I don't see why one should stop doing so.