[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:16, M.-A. Lemburg<mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a standard notation for hg revisions that roundup could
>>> detect and turn into links (much like it does for svn) ?
>> [a-f0-9]{12} should mostly do.
> 
> Hmm, no prefix or suffix ?
> 
> So we'll always have to write "see deadbeefdeadbeefff for details"
> or "Reverting f00fl33df00fl33d00 after problems on Pentium CPUs" ?!

No, rather "see deadbeefdead for details" and
"Reverting f00fl33df00fl33d00 after problems on Pentium CPUs".
In practice, rather 30ba63d28b1b or 12fb3b32d75d (from html5lib,
fwiw).

Dirkjan meant "[a-f0-9]{12}" literally.

Regards,
Martin