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: changelog-merge plugin and edited ChangeLog entries Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:04:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83fwrbp6gn.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298707480 8606 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2011 08:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 09:04:36 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PtF8l-00021x-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:04:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtF8l-0001IR-7J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:04:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34663 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PtF8Z-0001Gi-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtF8Y-0001b0-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PtF8Y-0001as-Dx; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LH700300STX0800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:04:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.53.157]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LH7002DZT37YT10@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:04:20 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:136545 Archived-At: admin/notes/bzr has this passage regarding changelog-merge: Sigh. This plugin has a drawback. People often like to edit older ChangeLog entries, not at the head of the file. Frequently they do this in the same commit as making new entries. Using this plugin will merge ALL changed entries (including older ones) to the top of the destination file. AFAIK, the number of people doing that is very small, so we could ask them not to. Regardless, would it be a good idea to ask for a modification of the plugin, whereby it would error out in such cases, either by default or under some option?