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: Re: ChangeLog and the release branch Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:14:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83oaeepbhi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56538D97.80905@cs.ucla.edu> <87bnakgwvq.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <877fl7lbjk.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <83610rz7pq.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4dkjwpn.fsf@yagnesh.org> <83mvtzuclk.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnaepckp.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448712885 15817 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2015 12:14:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 12:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hi@yagnesh.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 28 13:14:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a2eOh-0002Ru-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 13:14:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2eOk-0005Ri-7h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:14:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2eOe-0005Rc-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:14:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2eOb-0005Di-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:14:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:44640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2eOa-0005DX-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:14:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYI00M00XMHQY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:14:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYI00MIIY03MR50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 28 Nov 2015 14:14:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87bnaepckp.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195457 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Cc: Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala , bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Eggert > 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.