Re: Repo cpnversion progress report

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> To reduce the load, you can just skip the "conversion to action stamps".

I've already paid the time and complexity cost for that.  There's not
really a savings there.

> For fixes it's very different.  The way it works is: vc-annotate tells
> me the code was changed in commit NNNN and that commit says it's linked
> to bug#MMMM so I go check bug#MMMM to try and understand why the code is
> the way it is.  This is a fairly common occurrence, and it's common to
> use the bug#NNNN reference as an "excuse" to keep the commit log
> shorter, so it's important to preserve this info.

I agree. This goes on the list of use cases that needs to be supported
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>