From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recording the date at which a change was pushed to Savannah Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:48:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417528142 16105 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2014 13:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 13:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 14:48:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvnp1-0007nf-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36957 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvnp0-0001n5-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvnof-0001lK-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvnoX-0003oj-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:48:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:53072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XvnoX-0003oU-Kg; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:48:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsUIAGA2ZVRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgw6KYssMBAICgRwXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhLCdEEAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEUB4RLBYwLhAujDIF2hBofgnsBAQE X-IPAS-Result: AsUIAGA2ZVRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgw6KYssMBAICgRwXAQEBAQEBfIQDAQEDAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIhLCdEEAQEBAQYBAQEBHpEUB4RLBYwLhAujDIF2hBofgnsBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,380,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99353816" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 02 Dec 2014 08:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2FD0343C3; Tue, 2 Dec 2014 08:48:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:55:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178679 Archived-At: > If I've understood correctly, "the date that a change was applied to the > Emacs repository on Savannah" is not something that is recorded. Indeed. > Is it worth implementing that, or should I give up my quaint, naive > desire to know "when did X happen"? I don't think it's worth it. Because of the "fast-forward-only" constraint, if you have commit C1, C2, C3, coming from unrelated people, while we don't know exactly when each one of them was pushed we do know that commit C2 was *pushed* before commit C3 was *created* and similarly commit C1 was *pushed* before commit C2 was *created*. So the "push" can be reasonably well approximated by the commit time, tho doing it programmatically is probably hard. Stefan