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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:41:01 +0200 Message-ID: <834mcfppsy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuw090k7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y49spuxt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov4achc.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83r3fkpb3u.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457541701 29383 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 16:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 17:41:40 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 1adhAl-0004EI-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:41:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42498 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adhAf-0006I7-Hn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adhAP-0006I1-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adhAP-0007Vf-15 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adhAL-0007Ul-Bg; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3882 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adhAH-0006vi-0I; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:40:49 -0500 In-reply-to: <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:53:06 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:201253 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:53:06 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: John Wiegley > > Cc: Ingo Lohmar , ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:41:49 -0800 > > > > Keeping ChangeLog style in the commit entry is not terribly > > useful either, since the diff output of log -p lets you know which function or > > variable is being modified. > > "git log -p" cannot do the job for changes in many types of files. > For example, try it on Lisp or Texinfo files. Sorry, please disregard this mess.