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: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:15:32 +0200 Message-ID: <838u1trlnf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <83twkiteb3.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5utbxb.fsf@gnu.org> <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <87y49tdq33.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457453756 2988 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 16:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathieu Lirzin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 17:15:45 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 1adKIM-00054Q-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:15:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKIL-0004o0-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKIG-0004l3-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:15:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKIG-0004AV-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:15:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKI8-00049E-Fv; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:15:24 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2720 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adKI7-0003JX-Fz; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:15:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <87y49tdq33.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Mathieu Lirzin on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:03:28 +0100) 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:201164 Archived-At: > From: Mathieu Lirzin > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:03:28 +0100 > > > Even simpler would be to do what Guile does: it dispenses with > > ChangeLogs entirely. With Guile if you want something like a ChangeLog > > you run "git log". > > This approach seems wrong to me. I think it is still desirable to be > able to partially analyze history directly from a tarball (even if it is > not optimal) without requiring a web browser, or cloning a full git > repository. Yes, I very much agree.