From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A little suggestion Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:55:31 +0100 Message-ID: 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262731983 3223 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 22:53:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:53:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , angelo.graziosi@alice.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 23:52:55 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 1NSIGh-0001VS-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:52:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSIGa-0003BG-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFVs-0003GE-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFVh-00037n-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43150 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSFVg-00036f-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f228.google.com ([209.85.220.228]:59928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSFVS-0005U7-GM; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm28 with SMTP id 28so7849175fxm.26 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:55:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=rgvsuNZAtfwH8KK1yhykjeuV1Zzdz/tdeDeSxULYKG8=; b=cW0EfUBUZgSuQn8VgeofkoukWgePTvapHvdRIdYCNA/94ry1y5+dNZfB9IfnPJiDk6 6oaLis3PcaAw6EYBDQoHmLTiA/IZqIAK9AieNYGuZqwWJwc1PLfn0T5xa+6G5zXLR/Pu lzWl6nQoYuIRK5z5K/MaYhQ386R8QaKeDDCBA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s9DbZ5vzXKyLc1Jz5lx3IFWU8iS1I5uG884iMWAzJZ1ypTv19zGtEuY2U/6bH8PbGg p54WYomzmoi9Bz/wJ0Ywv0pLKMlNSBvxUPHTcTyny+6pzB46c+wQPJfCeG5Skm8ZHiFd gEtTuGvz/36vUJJLCnvGmuWdYG1dQMZ/XgfZA= Original-Received: by 10.239.156.193 with SMTP id n1mr2894019hbc.187.1262721351283; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:55:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83iqbgcq2d.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:119467 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" >> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0900 >> Cc: Emacs >> >> 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). =C2=A0So we could display the global revi= d > as something palatable, if not exactly short. > > Not that I understand why this would be useful... I don't think it will. Check out time is much more easy to understand and compare.