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 22:25:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071231032519.GD7241@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J976e-0003th-JO@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> That's not the same thing. "Commits touching foo.c" is NOT the same
> as just the items pertaining to foo.c. If those commits are
> multi-file commits, they will be full of items about other files as
> well as items about foo.c.
>
> So I think the Change Log mode feature is still desirable.
I was assuming that we would retain the Changelog item format keying on
files and functions.
In that case, extracting items pertaining to foo.c from log output
would be no more difficult than extracting them from a separate
Changelog. Less so, actually -- the pre-filtering for commits
touching foo.c would throw out a lot of chaff.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-31 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20071229141014.3364A2C83DC@grelber.thyrsus.com>
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
2007-12-30 22:58 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-31 3:25 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
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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