Re: Use of "Action stamps" in commit messages

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> I'm not sure having hyperlinks justifies the trouble of having to
> concoct those stamps.  In a repository such as we have in Emacs, a
> time stamp should allow you to find the commit fairly easily, I think.

While this is true, experience leads me to fear a proliferation of
varying and damaged timestamp formats uttered by people in a hurry.

Only a convention as simple and strong as action stamps has any
hope of being effective against this sort of drift.
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