From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:53:59 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87d41t1zk8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262368566 31888 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2010 17:56:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:56:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 01 18:55:59 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NQljB-0004q8-7P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQljB-00021P-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQliT-0001j3-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQliO-0001g0-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49145 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQliO-0001fw-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47369) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQliN-0000rY-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NQliK-0004a6-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from p5b2c252f.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.44.37.47]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p5b2c252f.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2c252f.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KblwXI6MG+WmqTindQWk/lRgGRc= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:119213 Archived-At: "Alfred M. Szmidt" writes: > Still, that seems to me a lesser problem that having to check two > places to get all relevant info. And, if you look deep at our > ChangeLogs, after years and years of use I'm sure you wouldn't take > more than half an hour to find some mistake (I'm not talking about > typos, but missing, wrong or duplicate entries, etc.). > > That may be true, but it is not a argument to make it impossible to > fix incorrect entries. Having proper entries is good for developers, > and for copyright reasons. I don't see what "copyright reasons" would make it a good idea to let a commit+message done by A be silently (or non-silently) be changed by B at a later date. -- David Kastrup