From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:32:23 +0300 Message-ID: <831tjvj13s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551A528C.7080008@cs.ucla.edu> <5523DA83.2000607@yandex.ru> <83lhi4hv49.fsf@gnu.org> <55241311.3050407@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428427954 3293 80.91.229.3 (7 Apr 2015 17:32:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, joaotavora@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 07 19:32:25 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 1YfXMN-0004Bl-RV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:32:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXMM-0005Jq-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:32:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXMJ-0005Jj-Q8 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXMG-0005Ag-Qq for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:32:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:55539) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YfXMG-0005AB-IY for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMG0080060J8600@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:32:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMG008UP61Q4Y50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:32:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55241311.3050407@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:185098 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:25:37 +0300 > From: Dmitry Gutov > CC: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 04/07/2015 05:27 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Create a top-level ChangeLog file with a single dummy entry, and the > > next add-change-log-entry will automatically find that ChangeLog and > > format the entry as required. > > Nice hack. But won't this leave a lot of unneeded code in add-log.el? add-log.el is not only for Emacs. Or maybe I don't understand which unneeded code did you have in mind. > If we're not going to change it, should we have some setting in the > top-level .dir-locals.el that will force the proper ChangeLog location > automatically? I don't see why not.