commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:03:32AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> > Finally, I missed if the aim is finding something Git-specific or not,
> > in the latter case the commit ID can be paired via a VCS identifier,
> > though I acknowledge that it risks to become too heavy ...

In fact, I was asking this exactly to understand whether we would want
a VCS-tag in the commit id or not. My use case was exactly as yours,
VCS switch.

But now I do agree with Martin that those cases are probably to tricky
to hard any how (no URL, old repo possibly shut down, ...). It is
simply not worth.

Cheers.

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