From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:34:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DCB064.9060206__10704.1455958553$1457303721$gmane$org@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2oaarxojf.fsf_-_@newartisans.com>
John Wiegley wrote:
> What do you all think about ChangeLogs, and their value
> to you in your work on Emacs?
I regularly do the equivalent of:
grep PATTERN $(git ls-files | grep -v ChangeLog)
That is, in searches I typically ignore ChangeLog* files because of their
less-useful chatter. I'd be happy if we stopped maintaining these files in the
master branch (we should keep them for emacs-25). I'd be happy if we removed the
existing ChangeLog* files from the master branch.
Even if we remove ChangeLogs, we should still have guidelines for commit message
format, as saying "anything goes" would make it harder to read the output of
'git log'. I don't mind using ChangeLog format in commit messages, as it's a
well-understood format and switching to some other format could well be more
trouble than it's worth.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-06 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 19:08 bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Glenn Morris
2016-02-13 0:52 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-16 16:41 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-16 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 16:46 ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-05 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 9:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-06 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-06 21:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06 21:25 ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-03-06 21:52 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) John Wiegley
[not found] ` <m2oaarxojf.fsf_-_@newartisans.com>
2016-03-06 22:05 ` Eric S. Raymond
2016-03-06 22:34 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-03-06 23:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default>
2016-03-07 0:15 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? John Wiegley
[not found] ` <m2io0zw3cd.fsf@newartisans.com>
2016-03-07 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-07 0:22 ` Mathieu Lirzin
[not found] ` <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-03-07 1:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2016-03-07 9:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <56DCB064.9060206@cs.ucla.edu>
2016-03-07 16:26 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08 7:32 ` bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Glenn Morris
2016-03-08 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 6:51 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-07 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 16:35 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-07 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 17:51 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-08 18:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-08 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 16:38 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-09 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-11 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 10:05 ` Nicolas Petton
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