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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:23 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56DE766B.6050405@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83y49tsk7t.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 1457419910 4228 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 06:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 06:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 07:51:40 2016 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 1adBUa-0005oZ-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 07:51:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adBUW-0000cE-KZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 01:51:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adBUT-0000c4-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 01:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adBUS-0004D8-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 01:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:47849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adBUO-00049r-Vs; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 01:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097AC160D06; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id FPWwC_n0RqkD; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488AE160E46; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 0G7d-4ZarKBE; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25318160D06; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:51:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:201133 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > What I think we should do is to never > commit it into the Git, and only auto-generate it into the tarball. That's easy to do -- it's what coreutils etc. do -- and is what I implemented at first for Emacs. It should be easy to change Emacs to do things that way; the change would mostly consist of removing gorp from the top-level Makefile.