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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 5663@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5663: vc-dir function to create ChangeLog entries
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:18:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q0vddfd41c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy6ic8wr7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 28 Feb 2010 23\:59\:21 -0500")

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> FWIW (as PCL-CVS maintainer), this command was inherited from the
> original PCL-CVS and has always caused me trouble and never seemed to do
> anything sufficiently valuable to deserve the time I invested in it.

Admittedly, the only time I find it useful is when I have modified a
bunch of files, and want to give them all a common ChangeLog entry,
rather than creating an individual entry for each.






  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01  3:11 bug#5663: vc-dir function to create ChangeLog entries Glenn Morris
2010-03-01  4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-01 23:18   ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-03-01 23:28   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-03-02 15:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-08  8:45       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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