RFE: support change-id generation natively

2013-10-21 Thread james . moger
n the world of managed code, but I'd be very happy to cheer for a change-id champion; I suspect there are some out there who might rally to this cause. Thanks for your consideration. James Moger gitblit.com [1] https://git.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/tree/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse

Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

2013-10-21 Thread james . moger
ects > > (myself included) if something like a "--change-id" flag was > > implemented and maybe even a config setting to always generate a > > change-id on commit (EGit currently supports this as > > "gerrit.createchangeid=true"). > > > > Sadly, m

Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

2013-10-21 Thread james . moger
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013, at 02:29 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: > As I understand, a UUID could also be used for the same purbose as the > change- > id. How is the change-id generated by the way? Would it be a good english > name > to call it enduring commit identifier? Here is the algorithm: https://git.

Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

2013-10-24 Thread james . moger
> That said, I don't think that --change-id option that the user must not > forget to use is any better than a hook that the user must not forget to > install. Having a --change-id option, to my mind, simplifies use of the patch workflow as it does not require downloading, copying and setting exec