From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS commits and logs Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:38:18 +0900 Message-ID: <87bqnk74d1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87r6wh1o5h.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162842370 27202 80.91.229.2 (6 Nov 2006 19:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:46:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 06 20:46:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhAJ2-00056S-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:38:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhAJ2-0000x4-3l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:38:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GhAIo-0000v5-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GhAIm-0000sW-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhAIl-0000sD-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GhAId-0006Aq-Na; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-133.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.133] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1GhAIW-0007DK-DU; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:38:20 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0018B2F43; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 04:38:18 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 06 Nov 2006 11\:08\:11 -0500") Original-Lines: 20 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61874 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I dislike multi-file CVS commits specifically because of the clutter > of having the entire change log entry in the log of each file. > > And what about multiple _authors_? Most of my commits are from > automatic merging, which more often than not involves multiple authors. > > Is this all a matter of Gnus? We could handle Gnus specially. Primarily Gnus, yes. I basically wanted to point out that the guidelines being discussed, while they definitely make prettier commit logs (I prefer that general style too), are problematic for some uses. [The fact that they make simultaneous commit impossible is also a problem generally of course.] -miles -- Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia