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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:28:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83pov0j2c6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuw090k7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y49spuxt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov4achc.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83r3fkpb3u.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> <56E066BD.5050403@cs.ucla.edu> <83wpp9jt82.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov1dje9.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457720988 20322 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 18:29:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nikolaus Rath Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 19:29:48 2016 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 1aeRoo-0003Ac-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:29:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeRon-0002xG-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeRoY-0002wV-Q3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeRoT-0005wC-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeRoT-0005w7-K1; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:25 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3925 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aeRoS-0007jo-TH; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:29:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pov1dje9.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (message from Nikolaus Rath on Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:17:02 -0800) 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: 2.1.14 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:201480 Archived-At: > From: Nikolaus Rath > Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:17:02 -0800 > > I think the low-tech option of a "commit-msg-override" directory with > one (updated) commit message per file (and the file name being the hash > of the commit being updated) is also still on the table. > > This directory could be trivially checked by whatever tool will be used > to turn the git log into a ChangeLog file. That could work, provided that Someone™ will post the changes to the gitlog-to-changelog script (or maybe an entirely different script) to produce ChangeLog from the log messages. This solution should also support merging from the release branch to master and cherry-picks in the opposite direction, where (AFAIK) SHA1 checksum is not necessarily left intact.