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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,
	schwab@linux-m68k.org, juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#40725: 27.0.91; Tutorial reports false positive key rebindings
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:32:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jTz07-0001X5-U9@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ees621fz.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:30:56 +0300)

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  > > The change history should record the rename.  Then a human who sees a reference
  > > to the old name can search for it and find out that the file was renamed.

  > Not all modern VCSes record renames.  Git doesn't.

If the change history won't do this automatically, the developers
should write it explicitly in some log entry.  That won't be hard.

Also, it is useful to insert a file's previous names in a comment near
the start of the file.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30  2:32 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
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 [this message]
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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