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: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:44:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83vb4wrkb2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <83egbmt2on.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4ykn17.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <838u1ut22y.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov6kmfe.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <8360wxtz9r.fsf@gnu.org> <87twkhef7h.fsf@vostro.rath.org> <83k2ldrmdj.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvq954pl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457455477 1789 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 16:44:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nikolaus Rath Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 17:44:32 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 1adKkK-00010O-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:44:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35852 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKkJ-0007ZJ-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKkF-0007Yz-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:44:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKkC-0005i2-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42828) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKkC-0005hy-IH; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2908 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adKkB-0003lK-Tg; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:44:24 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mvq954pl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> (message from Nikolaus Rath on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:12:22 -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:201174 Archived-At: > From: Nikolaus Rath > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:12:22 -0800 > > > As long as you don't have write access to the repository, you are not > > required to provide the log entries more than once, and so this issue > > doesn't really affect you. > > In that case I agree. However, this practice has the distinct > disadvantage that a patch's submitter does not show up as the author of > the commit. No, this is a misunderstanding: the submitter _always_ appears as the author, just not as the committer. We use the --author switch for that.