From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:53:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87ziu984ar.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <877fheb1rh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ziua9mwq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83h9git36k.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4y9ep9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a8mat2aa.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3fm9du0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <56DDF901.1080600@gmail.com> <87mvqa9bjc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83ziu9skcz.fsf@gnu.org> <874mcha8ql.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87twkhcx5o.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457445225 16601 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 13:53:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:53:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 14:53:36 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 1adI4r-0002D5-0y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:53:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34725 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adI4l-0008RK-EG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:53:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adI4i-0008RF-8G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:53:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adI4d-00044b-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:53:24 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adI4d-00044V-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:53:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adI4U-0001xm-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:53:10 +0100 Original-Received: from 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([79.153.146.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:53:10 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:53:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dqdUGZsZ4RFYGqyK6dqSNAYBL8Y= 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:201141 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > Óscar Fuentes writes: >> `git notes' is a documented feature available since a long time ago. It >> can turn the immutability of the commit log into a non-issue if you wish >> to produce a proofread ChangeLog to include in the tarball. > > I can't imagine that you have ever really used 'git notes'. I didn't. > It's a hack with terrible usability This is very vague. Is it good enough for solving our problem? (providing a fixed commit message in case the original one is not correct.) > and no merge support. What's wrong with `git notes merge' ?