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Subject:    ESR's reposurgeon action stamps
From:       "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-02-27 20:13:54
Message-ID: CAFUtaNFUQ=kF6pktLh9wYx6Nm=c0W-YhX8vpn4SeQ+xOms0UHQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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Since it's intended as a cross-VCS tool, Eric Raymond's reposurgeon
does not use hashes to refer to commits, but instead uses "action
stamps". From <http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/reposurgeon.html#reference-lifting>:

> An action stamp is an RFC3339 timestamp, followed by a '!', followed
> by a committer email address, followed by ':' and a 1-origin sequence
> number if the date/time pair is not unique in the repository; it
> refers to a commit without being VCS-specific. Thus, instead of
> "commit 304a53c2" or "r2355", "2011-10-25T15:11:09Z!fred@foonly.com".

Would there be any interest at all in extending the various Git
utilities to understand this style of reference?

—Joel Salomon
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