Re: Git mirrors

[Óscar Fuentes]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 00:30, Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> bzr has something like that, but time ago the people here
>> decided that knowing that information is not really useful, so just
>> ignore it.
>
> In some other universe, perhaps.

So let's make use of the next wormhole, then.

Some stuff, if you have time to skim over unrelated posts:

http://search.gmane.org/?query=bzr+revision+id+version&group=gmane.emacs.devel

If you are too impatient, peek through this for a quick taste of that
strange universe:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/129532

> In this one, the discussion was not
> about where bzr ids are useful, but whether they are so convenient to
> use that they should be routinely used when referring to trunk's
> revisions in commit logs and ChangeLogs. They are not. Chalk that one
> to Bazaar developers insisting on using the e-mail and date as the
> *head* of the id, instead of some fast-varying value like a sha-1
> digest.

Well, they thought that a bare series of hex digits are too intimidating
and put something familiar in front of the hash. Unfortunate, yes.