From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Scrivano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 22:59:42 +0100 Message-ID: <8760wwljg1.fsf@foo.bar.baz> References: <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <877fheb1rh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ziua9mwq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83h9git36k.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4y9ep9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a8mat2aa.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3fm9du0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834mchtz8q.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1ta97x.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mvq9rmh6.fsf@gnu.org> <87si0091yw.fsf@wanadoo.es> <6ba429fd-5c27-c925-58db-f4cd1d1865a5@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457474419 25647 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 22:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , Dmitry Gutov , David Caldwell To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 23:00:12 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 1adPfn-0000LK-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 23:00:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adPfi-0008Vl-JL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:00:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adPfS-0008VR-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adPfP-0007LR-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:59:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42189) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adPfP-0007Kv-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89806D7929; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from foo.bar.baz (vpn1-5-103.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.5.103]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u28LxhqT010938 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:59:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:23:22 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Tue, 08 Mar 2016 21:59:46 +0000 (UTC) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 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:201217 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Dmitry Gutov writes: > >> On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote: >>> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but >>> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it >>> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal. > >> How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after >> making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully. > > What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents: > > > > > > Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay > attention to it. the git-to-changelog gnulib module already supports something similar via --amend=FILE. For example coreutils is keeping a list of corrections to make to the git commit messages before the ChangeLog is generated: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/build-aux/git-log-fix Regards, Giuseppe