From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages (WAS: [Emacs-diffs] master babe0d4: Rearrange definition of zerop in subr.el) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:13:38 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531473107 14405 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 09:11:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Paul Eggert , Emacs developers To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 11:11:42 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fdu72-0003a1-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:11:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdu98-0004IF-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdu8z-0004I1-DW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdu8y-0006bF-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x22b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22b]:33816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdu8x-0006ay-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 05:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id 13-v6so61027375ois.1 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 02:13:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=rk/NDsiOdpu+Sc3MKCWmAQ4DCkOM04pvelnHOSb5dvA=; b=OBFqB/UP0QQp2Wi5QF1TDghCH3y074X95jSONdTo6UkwDxc4UnEWBQ7INL6a9J/rdL ZUVhM3TQ2I91xxgM3pTnYJeyGGJt0SULl8/o2bvstbFOlo0qHp/vhoyyNwzMvfMT3Z8M CVN9RM3lZdmgatxkf3XYz5msaxd3Bci2bwdRFbg/r5vwhdnEZMpVbSFWhqmSMKczt9k+ 9UXbW3O7bZR/D69I5renMv4HDGsjSfr4N1M6WwQmyxrRPs7VdgTH+Achi2gS940oV3he zzQXKfWKr3iju8SS9pRkptQkVgzghKzfwhboCEqAuNo0cEhvdduP84SKJwg3VgdPRGC0 kKBg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=rk/NDsiOdpu+Sc3MKCWmAQ4DCkOM04pvelnHOSb5dvA=; b=dUFXibSYICnXxu2t4SD+8p+xh+OYTynV+So00x5GWbDN0xfOvSqrtlllygDYzVHm+P Dnyc6WgYcrAWPrjsCt4E9wcFgVRt4imdXpGLu5zHptmhHCNo59nvrzbnItmIm2NMDkSH IfWbtwAFJkgafasmCE+tjXtxNa0Po8CtLhwRkKo7aQmeIaZUP3hnxU/Hp9SYrIv/ub/G wBF7aLG30s0kbhfKVEwuMKE1LD9mnK8YIOGa2rxSLpvr7yH5AU5bg7HOVZ0b9SQMJhc4 3xMbzAKNK/lI4J9FwhHhyi1Zs55jUcOHVTJa42KOoBLRwrR7GLkErNBrtrq3QcG5AkMH RP6w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOUpUlE7iKPsA1Ecl2WdfjOpr5AYZPwl0uXbgbJg9pAkKiI4CIgvMRNi wt52ECW7nIHVDJ/Dpg2zdwbRSDZh408EfkCrerE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AAOMgpcWHLH7jhd4ndoghodtSXUHC0kpr5KDvzWcIO8DKY14Cvp5pMSkbT/IjqlTktR/mwKVwRQygS27rtK+JY5qR1g= X-Received: by 2002:aca:b885:: with SMTP id i127-v6mr5430189oif.180.1531473219268; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 02:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 2002:a4a:3b8d:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 02:13:38 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22b X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:227324 Archived-At: .On 12 July 2018 at 11:34, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote: > from CONTRIBUTE: > > One way to identify revisions is by quoting their summary line. > Another is with an action stamp - an RFC3339 date followed by ! > followed by the committer's email - for example, > "2014-01-16T05:43:35Z!esr@thyrsus.com". This reminds that I'd like to remove this "Action stamp" thing as commit message convention. Action stamps are fine for what they were designed for: acting as a unique commit id for the repository conversion software "reposurgeon", but they are not very friendly to human readers. A date followed by the summary line is sufficient to identify a commit in a vc system agnostic way, reads nicer, and gives more info up front to a human. See also Bug#20609. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20609