From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:23:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262262574 10403 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2009 12:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 13:29:26 2009 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 1NQK9b-0002lN-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQK9b-00070M-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQK8v-0006kX-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQK8r-0006iA-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40226 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQK8q-0006i3-QV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.10] (port=56664 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQK8q-0004DZ-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NQK3s-0005EL-Jt; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:23:28 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:44:46 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:119143 Archived-At: > From: Andreas Schwab > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:44:46 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Are you suggesting that the commit message should not mention the > > changes in individual files at all, just the general idea? > > Yes, that's what they are for. But then the corresponding ChangeLog entries should have the text identical or very similar to the commit message in front of them, or else have some other means of locating the log entries easily. Anyway, I'm okay with this policy, if Stefan and Yidong approve it.