Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

[Martin Fick <mfick@codeaurora.org>]

On Monday, October 21, 2013 12:40:58 pm 
james.moger@gitblit.com wrote:
> 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.eclipse.org/c/jgit/jgit.git/tree/org.eclipse.
> jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/ChangeIdUtil.java#n78
> 
> I think "enduring commit id" is a fair interpretation of
> it's purpose. I don't speak for the Gerrit developers so
> I can not say if they are interested in alternative id
> generation.  I come to the list as a change-id
> user/consumer.

As a Gerrit maintainer, I would suspect that we would 
welcome a way to track "changes" natively in git.  Despite 
any compatibility issues with the current Gerrit 
implementation, I suspect we would be open to new forms if 
the git community has a better proposal than the current 
Change-Id.  Especially if it does reduce the significant 
user pain point of installing a hook!


-Martin


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