From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:58:38 +0000 Message-ID: <87twkhc8yp.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <20160306220502.GA23154@thyrsus.com> <8760wx442f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457449152 19980 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 14:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:59:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 15:59:00 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 1adJ6C-0006U1-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:59:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJ6B-0001hc-GT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJ67-0001hQ-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:58:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJ63-0007Nj-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJ63-0007NV-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adJ60-0006J9-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:58:48 +0100 Original-Received: from gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es ([147.96.12.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:58:48 +0100 Original-Received: from oub by gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:58:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8QI51EO0Ka4JniInRSeVr1C2Exw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201146 Archived-At: >>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: >> 2016-03-08 Uwe Brauer >> * gnus-init.el (gnus-user-format-function-G): > For this reasons, I have an (untracked) ChangeLog file in all > my repositories. This way I can use C-x 4 a to write a ChangeLog entry > in the "good old way" and then VC will automatically copy that data into > the *VC-Log* buffer for me to commit it. That's what I do also. > I had a hack which made C-x 4 a insert that text directly into *VC-Log* > but in the end I found it didn't work so well: it didn't let me save the > intermediate commit message and return to it later so it worked OK for > small simple changes, but for larger commits with larger diffs I found it > rather inconvenient. In any case could you send me that hack please?