From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Policty question - encoding to use in git repository? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:30:42 -0600 Message-ID: <87iosc4c3x.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> References: <20140217152937.8D831380525@snark.thyrsus.com> <87vbwdk0ii.fsf@tao.kanis.fr> <53028359.2000000@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392741100 15061 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2014 16:31:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:31:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 18 17:31:49 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 1WFnaG-0001yZ-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnaG-0007vX-3e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:31:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnZK-0006gB-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnZE-00053R-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:30:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-oa0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22d]:62421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFnZE-00053E-6Z; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-oa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id i11so19712064oag.32 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:30:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:reply-to:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=0uio/iIFpYmuLVXlZKo5Bk3V5SbgmYFQlKJvU28y9gk=; b=PvMWNnxZYYBOOS5WU7i1B1WFiJWa3mf/rrTEmux+WlsmjEmpzNqRGet5IMhubSgelC GzZZFwbc8FiO3SBS6cwE0Zltrz+UpAHMTi5pgu9jLvXYq+oJJioMC3YrYPWtHCJxLBX6 Rh7RCQK5CB69JTs8l7NnOFciPhxZSJAx3j4LRENbL1JFA9hy3JRyB7mCf688QtUqAMeP FUe7ttlGZ26z3yPmRx6IHmdV2HxUz83hijNYnL+rfTzbJYc9jFC9dkWTFhWTWXh9yqOz 7szB/0zJX8ws7j3DnANdwZcRZYElj03sUxaKY9CoCt/XLqKeS1YWpf2GP3UVkEGBqVv3 yeRA== X-Received: by 10.182.158.40 with SMTP id wr8mr934705obb.86.1392741043439; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:30:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ktab.red-bean.com (74-92-190-113-Illinois.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [74.92.190.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ru3sm59856344obc.2.2014.02.18.08.30.42 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 08:30:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:07:54 -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: 2607:f8b0:4003:c02::22d 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:169742 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> While we're on the topic of normalization, is it the intent to >>> normalize spelling of author and committer names in the repository? >> I wondered when the revisionism would get to that stage... >> Remember to fix all typos as well! >> And don't forget to remove all trailing whitespace! >> And use US spelling throughout! >> And two spaces after all full stops! >> And ... > >Please Glenn, stop this nonsense! Fixing those cosmetic issues is >a waste of time. We should focus on fixing actual bugs. Could someone >please help Eric collect a list of the various bug-fixes that should be >back-ported to older revisions? If you could find to which revision it >should apply it's better, but if not, I'm confident Eric will find >a neat heuristic to add to his reposurgeon to automatically find the >right revision. Hah! It seems the farther we get in this process, the closer we get to http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/annotate/head:/etc/future-bug becoming reality, yikes...