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Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Everyone, please stop making my life more difficult |
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Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:12:40 -0400 |
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Yuri Khan <address@hidden>:
> Neither does author/timestamp uniquely identify a commit in a
> rebaseful commit graph. But at least the commits having the same
> author/timestamp all conceptually represent the same change.
That is an interesting point.
We are still at a point where I could, theoretically, change this.
I could run the through the revision-ID mapping replacing committer-based
version stamps with author-based version stamps.
I am not sure this would be a good idea, though. It wouldn't actually
eliminate the multiple-target problem in searches using revision stamps
as keys; the best it would do is support an argument that the ambiguity
might not matter as much. Maybe - usually when a branch is rebased
on to trunk it's because someone is treating *that* as a conceptual
unit too, representing a feature landing.
And we really aren't guaranteed that future VCSes will have the
distinction; darcs, or something else like it based on a patch
algebra, could still win.
For now, I ask everyone to generate committer-based version stamps. If
we switch, I'll do it in one big operation.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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