Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS

[Andreas Schwab]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, Andreas.
>
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:23:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > Being able to refer to commits directly is very useful, and especially
>> > in Git where revision identifiers (hashes) are global.
>
>> Using only the hash is frowned upon, the best practice is to follow it
>> with the subject of the commit message.
>
> Is this because the hashes don't count as human-readable, in contrast to
> the sequential revision numbers that other systems (such as bzr and hg)
> use?

Neither revision numbers nor hashes are readable.

Andreas.

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