From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i9nMZ-0004OP-SB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:32:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9nMY-0001kJ-Kb for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:32:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i9nMY-0001kB-HQ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:32:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i9nMY-00087A-Bj for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:32:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#37413] [PATCH 0/9] Channel news distribution mechanism Resent-Message-ID: References: <20190915221021.4165-1-ludo@gnu.org> From: Ricardo Wurmus In-reply-to: <20190915221021.4165-1-ludo@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:31:40 +0200 Message-ID: <871rwgr3ib.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 37413@debbugs.gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > It=E2=80=99s a bit weird to refer to commits from within a file in the re= po > because it almost forces you to push so that you know the commit ID > that your news entry should refer to. News entries become obsolete > if you rebase, too. I think it=E2=80=99s acceptable, though. Would tags be acceptable instead of commit IDs? I think version tags would be easier to deal with than commit IDs and it wouldn=E2=80=99t require time travel as you can just make up a new version and refer to that in the news file. -- Ricardo