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Re: Action stamps
- From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus dot com>
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Richard Earnshaw <Richard dot Earnshaw at foss dot arm dot com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 11:16:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: Action stamps
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Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>:
> On 08/26/2015 01:11 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >What I usually do with old commit references in comments is map them
> >to what I call an "action stamp" - a user ID followed by an RFC3339
> >date. While this is theoretically not quite adequate, in practice
> >collisions are rare to nonexistent.
>
> For general identification of commits, as with references automatically
> added to Bugzilla and such, that makes a lot of sense. So in a git format
> string, %ce and %cI. And we can map back from such a stamp to the commit by
> specifying --author as well as --until; is that what you do?
When it comes up. Which, as I noted before, is less often than people assume.
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