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Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Please don't use revision numbers on commit messages (and elsewhere). |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:55:08 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> So, if you wish to refer to another revision on the commit message (or
> anywhere else) please use the revision id, which is unique for every
> commit.
Agreed. In the past we've also used dates as in "fix 2009-10-07
change", which aren't as precise as rev-ids and might prove ambiguous,
but are more stable than rev-nbs and more readable than rev-ids
(especially when reading the ChangeLog where the dates are available).
Stefan