From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS commits and logs Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r6wh1o5h.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87bqnk74d1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87irhqho6w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163308471 24966 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2006 05:14:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 06:14:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fi-0003Gk-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:14:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fi-0001Gk-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fV-0001Fe-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fU-0001F9-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fU-0001F3-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gj7fU-0006PY-5u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Gj7fT-0000cD-9y; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:07 -0500 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:24:16 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62094 Archived-At: > Yes. A single merge-commit to the unicode-2 branch represents many, > many changes on the trunk (hundreds of files, often multiple changes to > each file), so I don't include changelog info in the CVS log entry at > all. The CVS log entry more or less says "merge from trunk of > changesets X-Y." Well, that sort of indirection is the idea, and it's currently possible to find the source log entries, but not using CVS alone: the changeset information in the merge log refers to _arch_ changesets Why does merging one CVS branch into another have anything to do with arch? What does arch have to do with this anyway? Even with these tags, it would still be somewhat annoying for someone to track down the exact original commit logs, but I don't think there's really any practical alternative. One practical alternative is that we stop using arch. Maybe there are others -- such as changing your merge process so that it extracts proper CVS log info out of the arch data.