Re: feature proposal? add-change-log-entry does not find the ChangeLog file: change-log-directory-files

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>My problem is, if I am in a subdirectory of my mercurial (or git)
>repository and run add-change-log-entry, does not open the ChangeLog
>file in the «root» directory but tries to open the none existing
>ChangeLog file in the current subdirectory, which I don't want.
>
>Any ideas how to deal with this situation?
>
>
>I tried to set 
>
>,----
>[+]
>| change-log-directory-files is a variable defined in ‘add-log.el’.
>| Its value is (".bzr" ".git" "../.hg" ".hg" ".svn")
>| Original value was 
>| (".bzr" ".git" ".hg" ".svn")
>`----
>
>Did not help. Is this feature not implemented? By this I mean: suppose
>in a directory under VC, there is only one ChangeLog file in the root
>directory, then if I call add-change-log-entry there is no way to tell
>emacs that he only looks for that file?

A moment ago, I followed up with a proposal to walk up the tree -- which turns out to be what the current behavior is supposed to be anyway, and is what you expected -- because I didn't realize that that behavior was already implemented.

Then I read the doc string for `find-change-log' and the behavior described there seems to be exactly what you wanted and expected.

So I *think* the behavior you want is the behavior Emacs is already supposed to have.  Have you simply discovered a bug, or is there something subtle about your situation that is not covered by the current intended behavior of `find-change-log'?

Best regards,
-Karl