On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:00 +0000 Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 26 Oct 2009, at 15:05, Andrew Deason wrote: > > > > While I understand the usefulness of having this in commit messages > > to track changes, is there any way we could get the old numbers > > displayed in change listings? (e.g. the 'all open changes' page) > > > > I know what change 717 is, but change > > I6fd5cbb924053446689c576026f9044f78ba71be is a bit harder to > > remember. Seeing only that as the identifier for a change is pretty > > much useless for me. > > In general, changes to gerrit should be discussed over on the repo- > discuss list. I don't want OpenAFS to end up maintaining its own > fork of gerrit, so we really need to work with upstream to get > changes made there. If it requires changing gerrit, then I think the answer to my question was "no". I just meant, if there was a configuring switch or something. > In this case, though, I think Shawn pretty much has a plan to kill > off numerical change IDs. Bah. > The main reason for this is that when gerrit moves to git storage, the > plan is that it will operate as a distributed system. Change IDs > which are particular to a single server won't allow that kind of > distribution to occur. Yes, the centralization of gerrit is what I thought would let them exist. If it's moving towards something else, then okay. I may find it annoying, but okay. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
