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Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:27:03 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > I requested portable revision stamps for good reasons.
>
> I don't think you can expect that, until we have VC commands to
> produce them and look up commits using them.
Which is why that's on my to-do list. A good alternative is to
refer to a commit by a quote from its summary line; in fact this
is usually best for a human reader.
> I'm pretty sure that once we switch to Git, everybody will use Git sha
> values instead of bzr revnos.
A request for better behavior is already in the developer guidelines.
You could be helpful by setting a positive precedent.
> > and (b) I'm still trying to make conversions available on gitorious
> > so people can inspect them, get used to what the full conversion
> > looks like, and critique it.
>
> Did you get any critique lately?
No. But whether I do or not, I feel a responsibility to the developer
community to make that possible. The right thing must be done and
seen to be done.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, (continued)
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, David Kastrup, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, David Kastrup, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, David Kastrup, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/12
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- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Barry Warsaw, 2014/09/12
- Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/09/12
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Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/09/12