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: gitlog-to-changelog Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:52:36 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5526AE54.70300@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83a8yhfyfc.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1428598380 18734 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2015 16:53:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 09 18:52:51 2015 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 1YgFhB-0003vd-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:52:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35686 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgFhA-0007qS-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgFh8-0007qM-1h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgFh6-0005Mt-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:51241) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgFh0-0005Lj-UD; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A8939E801F; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:52:37 -0700 (PDT) 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 Zi-PkIMMFuvd; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C80239E801B; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:52:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: <83a8yhfyfc.fsf@gnu.org> 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:185221 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Should I fix this in the > Emacs repository, or is the script maintained elsewhere? It's maintained at gnulib. That bug isn't specific to Emacs, so I installed the fix in both gnulib and Emacs. > Also, I see 2 additional minor issues with the script: > > . It doesn't add the 'coding:' cookie at the end of the produced file. > . It unconditionally overwrites any local file named "ChangeLog", > which now most/all contributors will have. I wonder whether this > is necessary/desirable. Thanks, I patched build-aux/gitlog-to-emacslog (which is Emacs-specific) to try to address both those issues.