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: [Emacs-diffs] master e820f16: Added file-tree-walk to files.el. Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:26:43 +0200 Message-ID: <838uio5vjw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141203142859.24393.98673@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <20141203192721.GE12748@thyrsus.com> <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417638426 27091 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2014 20:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 20:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 03 21:27:01 2014 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 1XwGVn-0006xA-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwGVm-0007PW-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwGVU-0007PF-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwGVN-0004fk-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:36553) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwGVN-0004fT-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG000J00W5NO100@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:26:31 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG000JMFWS7NH30@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:26:31 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <547F6774.50700@cs.ucla.edu> 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:178769 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:41:40 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 12/03/2014 11:27 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > You want it even when the ChangeLog part is a trivial > > repetition of the summary line? > > It's not needed for one-liners. I agree. > For commit > e820f16c06a5a6be4bc87910b349c7c3c6eca0f4, for example, your ChangeLog > entry was "* files.el (file-tree-walk): Lisp translation of ANSI > ftw(3).", and that one-liner should have been the git commit message, too. Yes, but please lose the "*" part, it just wastes precious real estate. > In vc, abolish the dir-status method. > > * vc.el, all backends: API simplification: Abolish dir-status. > It's replaced by dir-status-files. Likewise here: no need to keep the asterisks.