From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fossil references in the Emacs tree - request for review
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:50:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115215026.GA11941@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9lob3dhrsh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> Part of the point of ChangeLogs is that they are supposed to be usable
> without the VCS, so IMO these references to revisions should never have
> been there, and should just be replaced with the appropriate date.
>
> Eg as it stands:
>
> * register.el (insert-register): Fix revno:114543.
>
> is meaningless for a ChangeLog. "Fix 2013-10-07 change" seems fine to
> me; I doubt anything more is needed. (I assume the VCS log will still
> contain the specific commit reference.)
It will. I'll take care of this.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 19:59 Fossil references in the Emacs tree - request for review Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-15 20:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 21:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-15 21:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-15 21:50 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
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