From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:17:28 +0200 Message-ID: <87mxk9u3on.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <877hbfvwyo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834o6iquye.fsf@gnu.org> <83zkoapff5.fsf@gnu.org> <878vvuuh61.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83k4fdyebs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301689078 12656 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2011 20:17:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:17:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 22:17:54 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 1Q5kn3-0005GG-O2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:17:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39118 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5kn3-0003hU-62 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47020 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5kmt-0003cw-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kms-0004fv-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kmr-0004fj-UJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5kmr-00056L-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.59.5.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:17:41 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:17:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.red-83-59-5.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TZzTUj/iJp/b5Q0kCQ1lSd7og7Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:138028 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> The rev id _is_ the whole DAG. >> > >> > But if I don't have some of the branches, those parts of the DAG are >> > not on my machine. And I want to have them, pronto. >> >> If you have the revision, you already have the DAG that contains all its >> predecessors. > > The logs only mention the revision IDs, so what I have the revision > ID, not the revision itself. Using the revision number makes things no better here. At least with the revision id you have the key for finding the revision, if you have it in some branch.