From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:23:43 +0900 Message-ID: <878ujv3e8w.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20141029004942.GA25241@thyrsus.com> <20141029105202.249acb5a@anarchist.wooz.org> <87bnouapiy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029150600.GA5701@thyrsus.com> <20141029141216.7abbbc0d@anarchist.wooz.org> <20141029222946.GA13673@thyrsus.com> <545178BE.2050505@cs.ucla.edu> <87k33i9fgi.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> <20141030083156.GA2683@thyrsus.com> <20141030102045.4cfc9315@anarchist.wooz.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414805065 27958 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2014 01:24:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 01:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Barry Warsaw Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 01 02:24:18 2014 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 1XkNQN-0001rB-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 02:24:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkNQN-0000Sm-Hr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:24:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkNQ0-0000JC-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:24:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkNPt-0001uq-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:44219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkNPs-0001uV-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633A91C3991; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 10:23:43 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 56D6F1A27CF; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 10:23:43 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <20141030102045.4cfc9315@anarchist.wooz.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:176183 Archived-At: Barry Warsaw writes: > [Commit logs] include a lot more detail about a change so that > future developers have a good history spelunking experience, but a > changelog/NEWS file will give only the higher level user visible > changes. ChangeLog != NEWS in Emacs. Am I missing something? Come to think of it, there could be a convention for creating and marking NEWS entries in commit logs, then NEWS (or proto-NEWS, there are ordering issues and it's not clear that committers could get them right) could be auto-generated.