Re: ChangeLog computation with savannah: "cvs server: nothing known about ymakefile"

[Steven Tamm <steventamm@mac.com>]

C-x v a or (vc-update-change-log) is to what I was referring.  It seems 
to work now, and the results it produces are, as is readily apparent, 
useless.  It regenerates the entire changelog, not just finding all the 
changes in the current directory and prepending them to the Log; which 
is what I would expect.  cvs2cl.pl includes a parameter "--accum" which 
does what I think it should.

Doing it "by hand" was doing C-x 4 a, which means I need to go to each 
functional difference and modify the changelog individually.  However, 
if C-x 4 a works from a *vc-diff*, then I can figure it out from there; 
I've only tried it from vc-log or cvs-commit, so I assumed it didn't 
work.

Thanks!
-Steven

On Apr 25, 2004, at 3:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I got sick of doing ChangeLog computes by hand;
>
> What are you referring to?
>
> Are you talking about creating ChangeLog entries out of the CVS log 
> messages?
> If so, I recommend that you do it the other way around: write the 
> ChangeLog
> entries first and then use C-c C-a in the *VC-log* (or *cvs-commit*) 
> buffer
> to fetch them and format them for CVS.
>
> The ChangeLog format is more powerful/flexible so it's the better 
> place to
> "do it by hand".  Also Emacs provides facilities to help you write
> ChangeLog entries (things like C-x 4 a which also work from a *vc-diff*
> buffer), whereas this has not been adapted (yet) to work with a 
> *vc-log*
> or *cvs-commit* buffer.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>
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