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: A little suggestion Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:05:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87vdfgfhbd.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <4B4315DB.9090302@alice.it> <874on0n6c0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iqbgcq2d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262732972 6297 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 23:09:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:09:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 00:09:25 2010 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 4.50) id 1NSIWi-0007n2-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:09:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSIWi-0006PZ-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:09:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFjR-0008H9-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFjM-0008G0-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFjL-0008Fs-Q7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:37128) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSFjL-0002YH-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSFjI-0000XF-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NSFjD-0000ZZ-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:10:07 +0100 Original-Received: from 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net ([88.24.214.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:10:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:10:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.red-88-24-214.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dCCVxxMSRL1svW2ulm3rhHseCAM= X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:119469 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> There is a global revision ID, but it's typically at least 40 >> characters long, sometimes a fair amount more. > > Part of that is the email address of the committer, the other part is > the time of the commit in second resolution, and only the last part, > 16 characters in my case, is a meaningless string (which is probably > an ASCII encoding of a number). So we could display the global revid > as something palatable, if not exactly short. > > Not that I understand why this would be useful... It potentially allows to replicate the exact state of the sources used for building emacs (suppossing that they didn't contained uncommitted changes.) Very useful on bug reports. -- Óscar