From: james.moger@gitblit.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:40:58 GMT
Subject: Re: RFE: support change-id generation natively
Message-ID: <1382380858.25852.36711509.53CF173C@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <201310212029.01589.thomas@koch.ro>


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