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: new VC, current with changes up to 1.456 Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:27:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20071003192456.GA8963@thyrsus.com> <200710040110.l941ASto012574@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191519014 8525 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2007 17:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 17:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 19:30:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IdUWI-0000g1-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:29:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdUWE-0006y3-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdUUt-0006Jx-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IdUUs-0006JD-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IdUUs-0006J4-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IdUUs-0005Jj-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IdUU0-0002UW-Vq; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:27:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <200710040110.l941ASto012574@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:10:28 -0700) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:80246 Archived-At: It makes a huge difference when looking at the files with ediff. I agree that your new ordering makes more sense, but it makes it much harder to look only for the things that actually changed (most of the functions move have not changed at all...). The clean way to do this is to install two separate changes: one with only substantial changes, not altering the order of the functions, and the other changing ONLY the order of the functions and making no real change in the code. How about if you (or someone) reorders the existing functions to match the new version? Check that in, and it will be easy to compare the new version against the current one.