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: Summarizing the purpose of a change. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: <834ooooxp6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iqd4tkv4.fsf@red-bean.com> <20091121121950.GB2021@muc.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258807418 27063 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2009 12:43:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:43:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 21 13:43:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBpJK-0007xv-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBpJK-0007m4-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBpJE-0007kv-DY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBpJ9-0007fz-KJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60080 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBpJ9-0007ft-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59197) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBpJ8-0006Xt-FE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KTG00900LYVL000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KTG007F6M041R60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20091121121950.GB2021@muc.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117441 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:19:50 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > In many projects, there is a convention of summarizing the purpose of a > > change in one or two sentences at the start of the log entry. This > > makes the rest of the log entry (and the change itself) easier to > > understand. > > > Could we try that in Emacs? Or is there some reason we don't do it? > > I do this every time. So far, nobody's complained. I do this when I commit large sets of changes. It could be a nuisance to do that for simple changes in a single file, though.