From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Commit practices
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:25:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071230172520.GA6657@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J8ykI-0006lo-7l@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> Perhaps we could substitute for that lost capability
> with a new feature in Change Log mode to selectively display
> the items that pertain to a certain file.
It's not necessary. Because the report from svn log (or hg log, or bzr
log) is generated from the commit history, filtering for the change
history for a particular file is trivial. All modern VCSes support
this, and I mean *all*.
So: say "svn log", and you get the entire commit history. Say "svn
log foo.c" and you get the history of all commits touching foo.c, and
only those commits. Similarly for bzr and hg.
Keeping what is now the Changelog info in the commit comments
would gives us the ability to see either the commit history as a whole
or any file's individual history. We would lose nothing.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-30 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-12-29 18:32 ` Commit practices Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-29 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 20:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-30 3:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-30 6:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 6:44 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 10:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-30 10:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 11:01 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 12:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 12:43 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 13:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 13:51 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 14:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-30 12:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-30 13:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 13:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-30 14:02 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-30 17:25 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-12-30 22:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-31 3:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-31 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-30 7:58 ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-31 0:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-31 22:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-01 0:48 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-01 22:47 ` Johan Bockgård
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