From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: hi@yagnesh.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog and the release branch
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:14:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaeepbhi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnaepckp.fsf@isaac.fritz.box>
> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
> Cc: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <hi@yagnesh.org>, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:50:46 +0100
>
> > How do you store the diffs in Git notes? You can't easily write diffs
> > by hand, so some script is needed to generate them and put them there.
>
> I don't think you would store a diff there but the complete, corrected
> ChangeLog.
That, too, needs some help, no? It's easy to format ChangeLog entries
when actually editing a ChangeLog file. It's probably harder to do
that when editing a Git note.
> If someone is volunteering to actually set this up and deal with the
> aftermath of people struggling with 'git notes', then yes.
Could you tell what that "struggling" entails? I never used Git
notes, so I don't know what difficulties and gotchas this could
present.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-28 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 20:36 When do we merge the commits from emacs-25 onto master? Artur Malabarba
2015-11-23 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-23 22:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-23 22:34 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-23 22:43 ` David Engster
2015-11-24 14:25 ` ChangeLog and the release branch (was: When do we merge the commits from emacs-25 onto master?) Artur Malabarba
2015-11-24 13:29 ` ChangeLog and the release branch Dmitry Gutov
2015-11-24 16:24 ` ChangeLog and the release branch (was: When do we merge the commits from emacs-25 onto master?) Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 21:07 ` ChangeLog and the release branch Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2015-11-27 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 11:50 ` David Engster
2015-11-28 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-11-28 12:36 ` David Engster
2015-11-28 19:15 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 18:32 ` When do we merge the commits from emacs-25 onto master? Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 19:33 ` David Engster
2015-11-24 19:46 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 22:04 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25 0:35 ` David Engster
2015-11-25 6:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83oaeepbhi.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=bruce.connor.am@gmail.com \
--cc=deng@randomsample.de \
--cc=eggert@cs.ucla.edu \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=hi@yagnesh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).