From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Flag day for simplified package inputs
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:22:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o86cnx4k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86o86gjh8t.fsf@fsfe.org> (Jelle Licht's message of "Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:29:54 +0100")
Hi,
Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> skribis:
> When applying this and future bulk changes, could we perhaps list the
> specific commits (+ commented shortlog line) in a file. To clarify, if
> we were to store these commits in `.git-blame-ignore-revs', later on we
> can instruct users to run:
>
> git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs
>
> to ignore the bulk change for git blame purposes.
Sounds like a good idea. There’s no particular convention regarding the
file name of ‘.git-blame-ignore-revs’, right?
> It seems like a maintainable way to mitigate some of the (IMO) major
> disadvantages that we bring in by applying bulk changes.
The disadvantage of changes is that they introduce changes, indeed. :-)
But really, I think we should be able to find relevant hints as comments
and use VCS history more as a last resort.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-19 15:11 Flag day for simplified package inputs Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-19 15:29 ` Jelle Licht
2021-11-22 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-11-22 15:13 ` Jelle Licht
2021-11-23 17:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-11-29 11:49 ` Jelle Licht
2021-12-01 17:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-13 15:17 ` Jelle Licht
2021-12-20 17:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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