Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Good morning, David.

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> It's not like anybody's going to want to type off "abbreviations" by
> hand anyway: too error-prone.

I'm going to want to do this, that's why I started this thread.  Using a
computer to kill and yank such a number is going to be such a downer.  Do
you also kill and yank a variable name each time you need to type it in,
or do you just type it?

Likely, I'm not going to be able to do this.  Remembering and typing in a
revision number is trivial: two chunks of memory - one for the bit that
slowly changes "118" the other for the "220" at the end.  With 40 digit
hex strings, even abbreviated, it's going to be 6 or 7 chunks to
memorise.  As you say, this will be error-prone.

> Just paste the full thing.  Really.  I've been developing for years
> with Git, and that's just what everybody does most of the time.

Because they have to, not because it's their preferred way of working.

> -- 
> David Kastrup

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).