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

[Alan Mackenzie]

'Evening, Andreas!

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 11:28:24PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

On the contrary, r116644 is eminently readable and memorisable, so much
so that I was able to transfer it to a "bzr log -r116644" instruction
without even having to bother with copy and paste.

Earlier on in the evening, I'd just done an informal bisect on the CC
Mode repository using "hg cat -r768", etc.  Worked like a dream.

Things are a bit different if you've got to use some arbitrary head of
something like df91e9880a3156ae1d236e88f.....

> Andreas.

> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, address@hidden

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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).