# ESR's reposurgeon action stamps

1 messages from 2013-02-27 to 2013-02-27. Participants: Joel C. Salomon.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33035

## Joel C. Salomon, 2013-02-27 20:13

Subject: ESR's reposurgeon action stamps
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Since it's intended as a cross-VCS tool, Eric Raymond’s reposurgeon
does not use hashes to refer to commits, but instead uses “action
stamps”. From <http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/reposurgeon.html#reference-lifting>:

> An action stamp is an RFC3339 timestamp, followed by a '!', followed
> by a committer email address, followed by ':' and a 1-origin sequence
> number if the date/time pair is not unique in the repository; it
> refers to a commit without being VCS-specific. Thus, instead of
> "commit 304a53c2" or "r2355", "2011-10-25T15:11:09Z!fred@foonly.com".

Would there be any interest at all in extending the various Git
utilities to understand this style of reference?

—Joel Salomon

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