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From: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Submitting patches from magit
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:29:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9qa4zrc.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8w4f52t.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2019 21:11:54 +0100")

ÓF> What about putting the changelog entry on the commit message?

Hum, I just read this tribal knowledge
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-09/msg00667.html
describing an "insider's" approach to changelog entries.

I suppose those who have commit rights find this method none too onerous.

As an "outsider" with a multi-file changeset, I've found wrangling changelog
entries for email submission tedious and highly error-prone.

A recent brouhaha discussing debbugs versus gitlab might also
have critiqued patch-based versus pull-request based development models, and
the efficacy of changelog entries.  It's the kind of thing that has been so
meticulously maintained for so many years that the old guard cannot be
faulted for wanting to preserve forevermore.  New-schoolers might counter with
the sunk-cost fallacy argument, however.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-20 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19 19:49 Submitting patches from magit dick.r.chiang
2019-12-19 20:06 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2019-12-19 20:25   ` Jonas Bernoulli
2019-12-19 20:11 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-20 18:29   ` dick.r.chiang [this message]
2019-12-20 19:18     ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-12-20 19:51       ` dick.r.chiang
2019-12-20 21:26       ` Alan Third
2019-12-19 20:29 ` Phil Sainty
2019-12-19 20:41   ` dick.r.chiang
2019-12-19 22:24     ` Jonas Bernoulli

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