From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: old ChangeLog files Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:12:29 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200212131212.VAA00899@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200212121430.gBCEUnY09091@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5x65ty16t1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039781963 20372 80.91.224.249 (13 Dec 2002 12:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Momo-0005IS-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:19:22 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Moyo-0004Su-00 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:31:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Molr-0004fR-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:18:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Mol8-0004UI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Mojk-0003eN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MogJ-00010T-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])gBDCCUk22749; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:12:30 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) gBDCCTR21695; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:12:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id VAA00899; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:12:29 +0900 (JST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: <5x65ty16t1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10113 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10113 In article <5x65ty16t1.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> > From: "Stefan Monnier" >> > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:30:49 -0500 >> > >> > Ideally this should also be merged into `ChangeLog' itself, but >> > CVS performs poorly with large locally-modified files, so >> > it's more convenient to keep a "small" ChangeLog file and move >> > older stuff into ChangeLog.old. >> > >> > What do people think ? >> >> It sounds like a good idea, but won't that cause ChangeLog.old to >> grow indefinitely (assuming that Emacs is going to be maintained for >> many years to come ;-)? >> >> If the file becomes too large, it might become difficult to browse it >> with e.g. Less or even Emacs itself. > IMO, it would be simpler to provide key bindings in Changelog mode > that automatically takes you to the previous older / next newer > changelog file in a series of ChangeLog files. I prefer the simple idea of making single ChangeLog.old. Currently sum of lisp/ChangeLog* is less than 5M. Even if we keep on using the current 32-bit machine for more than 20 years, and increase the file size by 5M every year, Emacs still can read it. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org