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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
	       "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>,
	       Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,
	GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Commit messages and the move to git
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119232921.GE16031@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191119193621.GB3834@thyrsus.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 02:36:21PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>:
> > Well, I was thinking of also giving some clue of what the commit was
> > about.  One possibly cut-off line accomplishes that, a simple revision
> > number not so much.

Sure, but it isn't easy at all to automatically come up with anything
useful or close to correct.  But if you start the subject line with the
SVN revision number, it is very useful.

> It's conventional under Git to have comments lead with a summary sentence.
> 
> I think you're going to find that the value of Subversion revision references
> fades pretty fast after the conversion. That has been my experience with
> other conversions.

Bugzilla is filled to the brim with SVN revision numbers.  This won't
lose relevance any time soon.  Decades of history.

Most of the time after I type "git log" I type "/\<123456\>".  We need
to keep a way to easily map SVN revision ids to git commits, and
something a bit more elegant than the ugly git-svn footers would be nice.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-04 10:29 Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 12:11 ` Arnaud Charlet
2019-11-04 12:43 ` Martin Jambor
2019-11-04 17:43   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-04 16:04 ` Jeff Law
2019-11-04 16:18   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-05 15:48   ` Richard Earnshaw
2019-11-07 14:27   ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-08 13:43     ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-09  6:01       ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-18 15:32         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 15:55           ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 16:48             ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:11               ` Segher Boessenkool
     [not found]                 ` <8c32c288-e9e6-b01b-7911-3f186116da85@gmail.com>
2019-11-18 17:24                   ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 17:26                     ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 17:46                       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:49                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:55                         ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 18:05                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 18:24                             ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-19 11:26                               ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 11:25                             ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 11:46                               ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:32                                 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 19:47                                   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:49                                     ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 22:14                                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 22:19                                       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-21 16:41                                       ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-21 16:52                                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-21 18:11                                           ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-21 18:09                                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-21 19:22                                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:43                                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 22:08                                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-18 17:38                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 18:53                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 19:14                     ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 19:21                     ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 19:44                       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 20:53                         ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-18 21:38                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 14:57                             ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-19 16:31                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-19 16:47                                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-19 16:48                                 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-19 19:36                                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 23:29                                     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-11-19 23:44                                       ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-19 23:51                                         ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-20  8:55                                           ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-20 14:50                                         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-11-20 17:30                                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-20  8:58                                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-20 11:27                                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-20 11:30                                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-20 11:42                                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-20 14:25                                           ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-20 16:01                                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-19 16:49                                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 10:54                               ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 15:35                                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-02 16:19                                   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 17:25                                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-02 17:47                                       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 18:00                                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-02 18:11                                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 18:17                                           ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-02 20:24                                       ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-03  0:48                                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-03  9:44                                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-03 10:12                                             ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 20:22                                     ` Richard Sandiford
2019-12-04 23:52                                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-05 10:26                                   ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:32                                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:36                                       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-05 10:41                                         ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:54                                           ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 13:18                                         ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 17:10                                           ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 17:22                                             ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 17:45                                               ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 20:14                                                 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 20:46                                                   ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 21:14                                                     ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 21:13                                                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 15:33                                         ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-18 23:43                   ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19  0:01                     ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19  9:27                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 11:05                         ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 11:50                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 11:58                           ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 12:23                           ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 12:33                             ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 12:35                               ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 12:42                                 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 13:34                                   ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:00                                     ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:06                                       ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 14:29                           ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 15:17                             ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:20                               ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 15:44                                 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:47                                   ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 15:48                                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:48                                   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 15:49                                 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:27                                   ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:28                                     ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:33                                     ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:39                                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:43                                         ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 20:30                                     ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 21:30                                       ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 21:41                                         ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 22:11                                           ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 22:58                                             ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 23:23                                               ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 23:53                                                 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 11:16                       ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-12-19 15:05                         ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 16:19 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-04 16:35   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 17:33   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-04 17:42     ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-04 17:50       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 11:07       ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-05 11:28         ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-05 14:12           ` Marek Polacek
2019-11-05 21:40             ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-05 14:50           ` David Malcolm
2019-11-05 22:08             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 20:16         ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 21:01           ` Iain Sandoe
2019-11-05  2:51 ` Kewen.Lin
2019-11-05 21:42   ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)

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