From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:42:14 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54828926.5070502@cs.ucla.edu> References: <546D2E75.6090701@cs.ucla.edu> <837fyp7tvi.fsf@gnu.org> <546E2899.4050702@cs.ucla.edu> <54756754.5090103@cs.ucla.edu> <54762721.4060908@cs.ucla.edu> <17zjb2h650.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417841009 30257 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 04:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 04:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19113@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 05:43:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7DD-0004wS-KF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 05:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7DD-0007BY-8e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7D3-0007BQ-TD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7Cw-00062Q-CN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:43:09 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7Cw-00062M-7n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7Cv-0002Ix-Nv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:43:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:43:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19113 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 19113-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19113.14178409468809 (code B ref 19113); Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:43:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19113) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Dec 2014 04:42:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55128 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7CL-0002I0-EI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:58214) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xx7CI-0002Hq-Dr for 19113@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D933DA60162; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:42:20 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2TtWl+XRLRoS; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:42:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 44B6CA6015A; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:42:15 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:96907 Archived-At: I see that Stefan covered most of Glenn's points. A quick followup: >> 5) Will I be able to mark a portion of a log to be excluded from the >> generated ChangeLog? > > I don't think so, but I don't see why that would be a problem. We could add that capability to gitlog-to-changelog, if needed. It shouldn't be hard. I'm hoping it's not needed that much. > I think by and large it doesn't: it's too complicated to be of regular use. > And since it only fixes the ChangeLog but not the "git log" output, its > usefulness is rather limited. That's correct. It's mainly intended to correct serious errors, e.g., misattribution. To help give a feel for it, of the 3329 commits to GNU coreutils master since it began generating ChangeLogs automatically, only 7 have been corrected in coreutils' build-aux/git-log-fix file.