Re: Semantics of change IDs (Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2025, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmsak50zd.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87tt4t12c0.fsf@iotcl.com>

Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com> writes:

> ... But on second thought, _some_ determinisn *can* be
> useful, for example when different tools try to generate a change-ID for
> the same source commit.

Yup. And once we have such determinism for the change-ID that is given to a freshly written commit not derived from anything else, as long as different tools use the same criteria to decide when to and not to carry forward the existing change-IDs forward to a commit they newly create,

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