Re: A little suggestion

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> There is a global revision ID, but it's typically at least 40
>> characters long, sometimes a fair amount more.
>
> Part of that is the email address of the committer, the other part is
> the time of the commit in second resolution, and only the last part,
> 16 characters in my case, is a meaningless string (which is probably
> an ASCII encoding of a number).  So we could display the global revid
> as something palatable, if not exactly short.
>
> <shrug> Not that I understand why this would be useful...

It potentially allows to replicate the exact state of the sources used
for building emacs (suppossing that they didn't contained uncommitted
changes.)

Very useful on bug reports.

-- 
Óscar