From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:44:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Semantics of change IDs (Re: Gerrit, GitButler, and Jujutsu projects collaborating on change-id commit footer)
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,