Re: Converting bzr revision-IDs to action stamps (was: Bazaar references complicate the git transition)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Joshua Judson Rosen <address@hidden>:
> (I did notice that you wrote "It is possible others have full hashes in
> them; I haven't looked closely enough at everything yet to be sure.";
> take this as a `heads up' about other closely-related things to look for
> as you're doing that scan)

Of course.  I've done this before. ;-)
 
> It may or may not be true specifically in the case of the mainline emacs
> revision history; someone will probably need/want to check (if nobody
> has yet), because it's certainly _possible_ to have situations in bzr
> where `timestamp!committer' works as a sort of hash bucket but _isn't_
> specific enough to identify a single unique revision-object.

I know. That's why the *full* form of an action stamp is actually

  {ISO-date }!{email-address}#{sequence-nummber}

I have needed that generality on some Subversion repositories.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>