On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:30:36AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > On 20/11/2019 11:27, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 08:58:05AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >>These won't work once we move to Git though. > > > >It would be good if whatever convention we do for commit messages and > >their first line would be machine parseable as well. > > I think that would be pretty pointless. We're not going to have machine > parsable summaries going forwards, so why would it really help for > historical commits?
There are give or take 173300 SVN commits on trunk alone. And we have references to SVN revision numbers everywhere (mailing list mails, bugzilla PRs, etc.) Segher
