From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reformat all of src/ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 10:21:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83eg0pu8ro.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h95olvg0.fsf@gmail.com> <83eg0rv1up.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483086131 10067 195.159.176.226 (30 Dec 2016 08:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, czipperz@gmail.com, tino.calancha@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 09:22:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsRw-0001ig-2C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:22:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsS1-00031r-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsRs-00031k-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsRp-0005qC-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsRo-0005q8-TG; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:21:56 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2084 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cMsRh-0005Pe-5Y; Fri, 30 Dec 2016 03:21:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:09:55 -0500) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:210988 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: eliz@gnu.org, jwiegley@gmail.com, czipperz@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:09:55 -0500 > > If they are in separate check-ins, it is easy to ignore those check-ins > and look at the ones that make substantive changes. Modern tools for digging into code history make the job harder, not easier, when such changes are made separately, because these changes mask the true author and date of real changes. This is especially problematic when "git log -L" and its variants are unable to do the job, because of file renaming or code that was moved from one function to another or from one file to another.