From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141029134906.GA3842@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029132744.GB2839@thyrsus.com>
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>:
> > > 29 okt 2014 kl. 10:52 skrev Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>:
> > >
> > > About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional
> > > GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bulleted
> > > items in it any more. We're no longer in CVS-land, commits are cheap,
> > > make them fine-grained.
> > >
> >
> > When using vc-mode it is very easy to insert the ChangeLog entry.
> > Why is that bad?
>
> Look at a gitk listing. You'll see it.
Thinking about it, this was too short an answer. Sorry.
A better answer is that it's fine to insert the ChangeLog entry *if you put
it after a proper self-contained summary line*. That way, listings
in gitk and git log -1 will make sense.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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2014-10-28 22:33 Referring to revisions in the git future Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-28 22:54 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-28 23:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-28 23:24 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-31 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-29 0:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 3:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 12:41 ` Alexander Baier
2014-10-29 14:52 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-29 15:01 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 15:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 18:12 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-29 22:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-10-29 22:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 23:31 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-30 0:01 ` Nic Ferrier
2014-10-30 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 2:10 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 2:13 ` Paul Eggert
2014-10-30 2:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 2:25 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-30 10:10 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 13:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 15:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 6:46 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-30 7:36 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-10-30 8:09 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-30 8:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-30 10:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 10:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-30 11:13 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-10-30 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 13:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 15:33 ` DVCS design philosophy Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 17:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-31 20:18 ` Referring to revisions in the git future Nicolas Richard
2014-10-31 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-01 1:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-01 7:58 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 14:20 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-11-01 1:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-30 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-30 3:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-30 4:35 ` Barry Warsaw
2014-10-30 5:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-30 10:17 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 13:42 ` Alex Bennée
2014-10-30 13:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-31 6:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-31 19:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-01 1:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-01 7:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-01 7:09 ` Dima Kogan
2014-11-01 7:28 ` Paul Eggert
2014-11-01 7:49 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-01 9:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 10:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-01 11:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-01 13:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 10:29 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-01 11:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 11:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-01 12:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 12:47 ` Ivan Shmakov
2014-11-01 13:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-01 18:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-01 12:49 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 1:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 6:06 ` Werner LEMBERG
2014-10-29 9:01 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 8:50 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 9:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 11:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 14:35 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-29 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-30 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-30 8:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 10:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 11:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 12:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-10-30 15:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-30 15:56 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-31 7:47 ` Richard Stallman
2014-10-31 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-31 10:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 12:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 13:00 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2014-10-29 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 14:46 ` Rasmus
2014-10-29 14:52 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 0:58 ` Rob Browning
2014-10-29 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:04 ` utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation Camm Maguire
2014-10-29 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-29 15:55 ` Camm Maguire
2014-10-29 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-30 14:13 ` Camm Maguire
2014-10-30 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-30 16:27 ` Camm Maguire
2014-10-30 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-31 18:05 ` Camm Maguire
2014-11-01 9:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-01 18:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-01 18:41 ` David Kastrup
2014-11-01 19:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-11-02 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-01 1:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 15:56 ` Raymond Toy
2014-10-30 14:16 ` Camm Maguire
2014-10-31 18:47 ` Sam Steingold
2014-10-31 21:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-10-31 19:52 ` [Gcl-devel] " Stefan Monnier
2014-10-30 3:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 13:26 ` Referring to revisions in the git future Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-29 14:49 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-30 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-10-29 13:08 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-29 13:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-10-29 13:49 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-10-29 18:03 ` Jan Djärv
2014-10-29 11:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-10-29 11:37 ` David Kastrup
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2014-10-31 9:43 Eli Zaretskii
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