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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, mattiase@acm.org, 40725@debbugs.gnu.org,
	juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:18:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jStLh-0004XC-GL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zhb084s9.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:20:54 +0300)

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It is too bad that the option of renaming the file's whole history in
the repo has been lost.  It has been useful.  I disagree with the idea
that there is anything wrong about doing so.

The change history is not meant as evidence for a court case.  It is a
log of past changes to the code, to help us understand how to change
it in the future.  What happened in the past is not a crucial question
in its own right; rather, it matters because it can help answer
questions such as why something fails now and how to change it.

If a source file (let's say, flles.el) had a different name in the
past, that makes little difference to maintaining the code in that
file, as long as the renaming didn't change when and where the file is
loaded.  So it would be a significant help, and little loss, to put
all the records for that file's code under the name "files.el",
including records from when the file had another name.  This is not a
kind of tampering.  It is filing the info under the name where we
would look for it.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)







  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-27  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-19 23:31 bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-04-20 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-20 22:19   ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-04-21 13:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 22:26       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-04-23 14:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 21:52         ` Juri Linkov
2020-04-24  6:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25  3:31           ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25  8:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 20:42             ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-18 13:54         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-18 18:52           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-08-19 10:20             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-12  8:28               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-14 23:24                 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-11-15  5:53                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-04-24  8:46 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 10:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 10:41     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 11:21       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 11:35         ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 12:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 12:47             ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 13:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 16:01                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-25  3:33                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25  6:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-27  2:18                     ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-04-27  2:37                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-27  6:11                       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-28  2:49                         ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-28  7:02                           ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-29  3:25                             ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29  7:30                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-30  2:32                                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 19:48             ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-04-24 19:57               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-24 15:38           ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-24 15:51             ` Eli Zaretskii

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