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: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:56:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9mabwks.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> <86608msw0h.fsf@dod.no> <838tdiet25.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3li4vh7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <83608kck4c.fsf@gnu.org> <544c170f-99bd-c701-3063-c697296a30a6@cs.ucla.edu> <83po6rar9c.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515005715 31503 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2018 18:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 18:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 19:55:10 2018 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 1eWoBp-0007K9-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:55:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWoDo-0007ec-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWoD9-0007d0-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWoD6-0004iS-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:56:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWoD6-0004iE-JP; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2506 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eWoD5-0000OW-VF; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:56:20 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:20:18 -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:221557 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:20:18 -0500 > > > from Git history. One example is establishing whether some change was > > in Emacs XX.YY or in a later version. > > FWIW, I generally do that by comparing the change to the actual code of > Emacs-XX.YY. How do you do that when XX.YY is not known in advance? Check every version of Emacs from the last one back? That's not really efficient.