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: File names in ChangeLog entries Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:36:39 +0200 Message-ID: <83ee6u87i0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831r2xt32t.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilw8sa9j.fsf@gnu.org> <835ys8s1gg.fsf@gnu.org> <87czmgruyc.fsf@gnuvola.org> <83h7bsqfxh.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnknpkvc.fsf@red-bean.com> <86pmqfmkuy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83k0gnpbdm.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19637"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, ttn@gnuvola.org, juri@linkov.net To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 08:37:59 2021 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 1mt38n-0004qv-WC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:37:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43544 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt38l-0001zv-Py for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt37k-0001JA-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:36:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=49602 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mt37i-0004zW-SF; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:36:50 -0500 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=sDtXAF9iNGiEVXR6GUQT9at3Y8InQ3gOkC9QmdYwLgc=; b=mWdYZVoXoY32 398yXih9orvVexBgWx9AVuYz+77KO8oaWsSpLGDMi3vQOe9/nVwGeRWe+X4iPH8Wg8NTo67QKB5wz 9nlMsvzwtKLKCHy0uzbonVfKTOwHVMzRUM3IF/gyELz5oa78QQRG9w7sB1eWlsmRvA2zQs7Lxfws7 00SryrEceQazXyiItq8+CEsCvecy0STfCFwl7t0I2IvCDNUHGt/9Flj41/JCLkoEo/IYrq5QY8sIV oXc6fr++bwhx58J69fqkRxxF6Wv7Er7ugpeefCM5/FEPZpgpcXN0l5+oDl3b/GiYgQQkmgCmudx8G moNordL+H/mri3wscijNFw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4832 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 1mt37i-0005cF-Gy; Fri, 03 Dec 2021 02:36:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:09:20 -0500) 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280812 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Juri Linkov , kfogel@red-bean.com, stefan@marxist.se, > emacs-devel@gnu.org, ttn@gnuvola.org > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:09:20 -0500 > > > You don't need to guess, you need to look at the rest of the log > > message. > > I guess that begs the question: what do you think is the role of the > Summary, IOW how is it intended/expected to be used? > > In my own experience, there are two main cases where I've made use of them: > > - When listing a chain of commits for a particular change. I don't understand what this means. Are you talking about the history of changes in a particular region of a file? Then "git log -L" is your friend. > I wonder how you use them. I just read the summary and find the ones that could potentially be relevant to whatever I'm looking for. But mostly I just use "git log", where I see the entire log message with all the details.