From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:15:01 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <547B4285.8070901@cs.ucla.edu> References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> <546AABCF.8030705@cs.ucla.edu> <9xioico2nm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k32s9zm5.fsf@gnu.org> <547A4A1B.9060807@cs.ucla.edu> <20141130101201.3a2625e6@forcix> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417364152 32122 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 16:15:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:15:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jorgen Schaefer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 17:15:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7A0-0004sH-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50818 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv79z-0004Nx-NE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv79m-0004Jw-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv79e-0003Av-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:33737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv79e-00039O-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:15:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690C6A60026; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:15:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WNicWNQn4tZL; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:15:05 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 87BA6A60027; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 08:15:05 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20141130101201.3a2625e6@forcix> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:178523 Archived-At: Jorgen Schaefer wrote: > Is there at least some consensus to merge the various ChangeLog > files into a single one, though? No, sorry, Stefan didn't like that idea much. FWIW, he was more positive about generating ChangeLogs automatically. I can think of one improvement here, though, which we can make regardless of whether ChangeLogs are generated automatically. For changes that affect files in different directories, I'd like to put the corresponding commit message into the ChangeLog at the closest ancestor to all the directories, instead of breaking the message into pieces and scattering it into little ChangeLog bits here and there that have to be pieced together later if I want to understand the change. That would make my life easier, for both writing and reading the source code.