commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> [2008.11.13.0903 +0100]:
> If we really want a tag in front of the commit identifier we should
> specify the VCS: [Git:fed3f3d], [Svn:r1234], [Hg:fed3f3d] this would
> help in the case where a package switches VCSs.

... except we wouldn't have the old repo URL or the repo may not
even exist any longer, so it wouldn't necessarily help at all.

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