Re: using commit identifiers in bug reports

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:06:58 +0200  From: Dmitry Gutov
>>>>> On 01/23/2015 06:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

 >>>> Or, in my case: “as of last week, Emacs…,” right?

 >>> No, that already might be interpreted as "starting from last week".
 >>> Perhaps even my suggestion above might.  So how about "with the
 >>> current trunk, Emacs does this and that"?

	I still feel it useful to include the commit identifier
	somewhere.  Why, report-emacs-bug already puts the version in
	the subject, and on Git ‘master’, a single version value may
	correspond to vastly different trees.

 >> That might be a British vs American English issue.

 > I don't think so.  AFAIK, Glenn's origins are in the UK, and mine are
 > certainly not in the US.  And yet both of us consider that wording
 > awkward and somewhat confusing.

	One more thing to note is that English Wikipedia consistently
	uses “as of” to mean “at that particular point in time” without
	any implication of the state of affairs being /changed/ at that
	same point.  See [1], for instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:As_of

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