Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
> > From: address@hidden (Eric S. Raymond)
> > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:36:52 -0400 (EDT)
> > 
> > The correct format for a commit reference that will remain
> > intelligible across every VCS, forever, is this:
> > 
> > <RFC3339-date>!<email-address>
> > 
> > Example: 2010-11-13T21:07:address@hidden
> 
> Btw, what is <email-address> here?  Is that the author or the
> committer?

The committer.

This choice helps avoid collisions.  It is unlikely that one
committer will ever manage two commits in the same clock second.
Slightly less ulikely that two different committers at different
consoles will check in a patch from a different author.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>