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? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:36:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83pov2n8ji.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83bn6quugw.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lbo4ba.fsf@gnu.org> <56E076EC.8040606@cs.ucla.edu> <83egbjo2c6.fsf@gnu.org> <56E0B037.6080700@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457591835 26520 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 06:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 07:37:02 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 1aduDQ-0007MO-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:36:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduDQ-0007ZN-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:36:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduDD-0007ZG-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduDC-0004jh-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:36:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aduD7-0004jL-LD; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:36:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4827 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aduD6-0001GZ-7p; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:36:36 -0500 In-reply-to: <56E0B037.6080700@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:22:31 -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:201349 Archived-At: > Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:22:31 -0800 > > On 03/09/2016 11:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > >> And people shouldn't need to cough up the right regex; all they need > >> to do is run "./autogen.sh all" or "./autogen.sh git". > > That still misses a couple that add-change-log-entry doesn't. > > Which two languages? It should be easy to fix and I can volunteer to do > that. Shell scripts and Makefiles are the two I thought of immediately. Maybe there are more, I don't know. How about TeX and PS, for example? We have a few of those. Basically, every major mode that has support for add-change-log-entry and for which we have files in the repository is a candidate. Btw, the best solution would be to have these tricks added to standard Git installation, or maybe to GNU Diff (which I think Git uses?). Why should users need to reinvent the same wheel all the time?