bug#20609: 25.0.50; How to I easily generate the "action stamp" given a commit hash?

[Stefan Kangas]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
>> CONTRIBUTE prohibits referencing commits the easy way, and instead asks
>> me to use "RFC3339 date followed by followed by the committer's email".
>>
>> If reversing this decision is not an option
>
> I would like to propose doing away with this "action stamp" thing.  It
> is okay for its original purpose: an almost-guaranteed-unique identifier
> for an automated repository format conversion tool.  But it is not very
> human-readable.  It is fairly awkward to come up with a git command that
> comes up with the correct UTC timestamp.  We hardly use it anyway.
>
> Giving just the date (no timestamp) plus summary line should be unique
> enough, and is very human readable.

Nothing has happened here in two years, but I think it's a good idea
to get rid of action stamps and replace them with something that we
can easily generate.  Noam's proposal seems to solve that.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas