From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:24:10 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: <20140912043652.4D6D8380604@snark.thyrsus.com> <83zje56ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140912083430.GA32586@thyrsus.com> <87mwa59i1r.fsf@igel.home> <87ioksx5v8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410536444 17343 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2014 15:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 17:40:40 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 1XSSxk-0005B5-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSxj-0005at-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSxJ-0005WM-Dj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSxB-0003Uy-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSxB-0003TI-04 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XSSid-000457-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 66.9.135.66 ([66.9.135.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 66.9.135.66 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.9.135.66 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (darwin) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:qM1g/1S6hvG4u9mGdfexqkYy2/U= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:174228 Archived-At: > * Yuri Khan [2014-09-12 21:44:24 +0700]: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> If the commit timestamp were anything but "tomorrow" it would be a bug. >> The whole point of a commit timestamp is to track who created a commit >> when. Since a rebase creates commits, obviously the commit timestamp >> will correspond to the time of the rebase, and the commit author will >> correspond to the person doing the rebase. >> >> Which is exactly why using "commit author/timestamp" is not going to cut >> it as a unique identifier when rebases come into play. > > Neither does author/timestamp uniquely identify a commit in a > rebaseful commit graph. But at least the commits having the same > author/timestamp all conceptually represent the same change. Not at all - if we accept the notion that rebase changes timestamp. E.g., if I work for a week making 20 separate unrelated commits on different days and then rebase, then all the 20 commits will have the same timestamp. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on darwin Ns 10.3.1265 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://mideasttruth.com http://islamexposedonline.com http://think-israel.org http://www.dhimmitude.org http://memri.org You won't get smarter by calling me a fool.