Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:09 AM Radon Rosborough <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > They will stop being useful if we ever change our VCS.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but -- if we change to a different VCS,
> we are going to have to rewrite all the history anyway. Why would it
> be difficult to have a filter that goes through and replaces all the
> Git commit IDs with the corresponding ones for the new VCS?

Because it is hard for an automatic tool to tell Git commit IDs from
unrelated hexadecimal numbers.