Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/14/2018 02:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What UI did you have in mind? Something like "with point on a Git
> SHA1 or the result of 'git describe', invoke a command that will
> replace those with an action stamp"?  If so, I think it would be nice
> to have that, yes.

Something like that, yes. I haven't thought through the design.

> While at that: what should we do with SHA1 signatures added
> automatically by the likes of "git cherry-pick -x"?  Use -xe and
> invoke the above hypothetical command?  Something else?

Sorry, I don't know what -xe is.

Something else that might help would be to have
build-aux/git-hooks/commit-msg check for SHA1 signatures and advise the
committer to use the hypothetical command to resolve them.