Re: A little suggestion

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:23:27 +0900
>> Cc: Emacs <address@hidden>
>>
>> There is a global revision ID, but it's typically at least 40
>> characters long, sometimes a fair amount more.
>
> Part of that is the email address of the committer, the other part is
> the time of the commit in second resolution, and only the last part,
> 16 characters in my case, is a meaningless string (which is probably
> an ASCII encoding of a number).  So we could display the global revid
> as something palatable, if not exactly short.
>
> <shrug> Not that I understand why this would be useful...

I don't think it will. Check out time is much more easy to understand
and compare.