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Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively

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james.moger@gitblit.com <james.moger@gitblit.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2013, 18:40 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013, at 02:29 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:
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> 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
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