From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87twg05nqf.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83a8hla8nx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468428908 27605 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2016 16:55:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 13 18:55:03 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 1bNNQv-0007m2-VZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:54:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNQv-0002gr-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNQp-0002gb-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNQk-0004Gp-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNQk-0004Gc-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com ([209.85.218.51]:34712) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNQj-0002Uz-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi0-f51.google.com with SMTP id s66so78832677oif.1 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:54:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKVoL4NmKg5jpV/1aZ0WX3khLxHNb4D7q3f/IAczQ2opN/qWpgughVmgYrsGJPQSrdFi4cVd4PMJ1F8Cw== X-Received: by 10.202.173.212 with SMTP id w203mr2164301oie.119.1468428876507; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.199.143 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205662 Archived-At: On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > The main reason I can see is that we can't fix them after-the fact > because Git doesn't support that feature. Yes, this is a common need and Git should be changed to allow editing of commit log entries even though this could be said to change the state of the prior releases. Bob