From 4d6df42066b762ba12191ba6dec82cda96ac21d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:05:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Minor correction to admin/notes/bzr: *fourth* VCS, not third. RCS -> CVS -> Bzr -> Git. And (as Stefan Monnier reports) "GNU Arch was semi-officially used for a while between CVS and Bzr, tho not for the main branch." --- admin/notes/commits | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/admin/notes/commits b/admin/notes/commits index 6e2aabe5abc..f33c6905d4c 100644 --- a/admin/notes/commits +++ b/admin/notes/commits @@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:21:20 +0900 for modern source-control systems with a global log, it's better to have something like "Regenerate configure". -(4) (Added in 2014) In commit comments, and ChangLog files, it is best +(4) (Added in 2014) In commit comments, and ChangeLog files, it is best to use ways of identifying revisions that are not dependent on a particular version control system. (At time of writing Emacs is - about to move to its third VCS and another move in the future is + about to move to its fourth VCS and another move in the future is not impossible.) An excellent way to identify commits is by quoting their summary line. Another is with an action stamp - an RFC3339 date followed by ! followed by the committer's email - for -- 2.39.2