commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Fri Nov 14 11:39:13 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:42:02AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> [2008.11.13.1540 +0100]:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:42:44PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > Except, of course, there is no such thing as an SVN-Commit. r123
> > > is a state, a snapshot, the commit if the diff against r-1.
> > > I think hg is like Git
> > 
> > well, in git the commit-ids also represent the state of the whole
> > tree like in svn.
> 
> Yes, but we are talking about commits, about changes which resolve
> a given bug. It's only SVN's limitation that you cannot do 'svn show
> r123' and get what you want to see.
But trac can help with this. This shows the changeset that leads to
r123:
    https://trac.calendarserver.org/changeset/123
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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