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. -J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html