On Monday, October 21, 2013 12:40:58 pm james.moger@xxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- 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