From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog and commit messages Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:02:13 +0300 Message-ID: <834jn5p5a2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a5wxb5sl.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87a5wxb5sl.fsf@yahoo.com> <837cs1p6bf.fsf@gnu.org> <875y7lb4k7.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26444"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 18 10:03:15 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qAnNT-0006go-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:03:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAnMW-00074E-Qy; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAnMT-00073l-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAnMS-0004a5-EQ; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:02:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=merf3TXFxIC9eH3USTK9txQKZV2ZavGwjDk4rXd5C1k=; b=rVLQNLHC1b8S E6E3/7zmkfKIrjvPv95fBUMMEi3Q3LTdlZi05vuFkDfBX8sFIBsoik3jLbXHXWTgkA25yZ8IJ2EAc pUZtJxe/KJof37OkqXFwJFtht0Dw7E/E5oOVWRiCsAZBV559YQayMiqfxUtzwQwKsPnJvtVu1yt6b gv8KK/DPyNEJa9gDL7Ei7LKX6iwTAWrK3RcPzEz93k61Knx2QTIM1J0kgfpKJhwuxhpWBhsGzXTom 3mZKsuwq7CQ+RgWWmexNea106pdmv+KPLcxYrkRlC1Wj4hOqIhsEQ6QOJ0v3jMcLfkCFMgcHi0JFU 8rxmmbvSi+2gLmXSv6FT4g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAnMR-00028j-9N; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 04:02:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875y7lb4k7.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:41:28 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306919 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:41:28 +0800 > > One idea I have is to allow writing: > > ** no title ** > > in commit messages, and to avoid placing such titles in the generated > ChangeLog. If you do that, it will break "git log --pretty=oneline" and Emacs features such as "C-x v L". There's a reason why we require a meaningful heading line. It isn't arbitrary, and its main purpose is not for ChangeLog at all.