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 09:12:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262268913 26628 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2009 14:15:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 15:15:06 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 1NQLnG-00036t-EC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLnG-0001B0-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:14:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLle-0000VN-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLlT-0000PU-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60707 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLlT-0000PP-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.10] (port=52668 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQLlS-0006Tu-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NQLl8-00070z-99; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:14 -0500 In-reply-to: <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> (message from Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:57 +0200) 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:119154 Archived-At: > From: Giorgos Keramidas > Cc: Andreas Schwab , lekktu@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:57 +0200 > > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:23:28 -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> 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. > > I think it's very useful to see file changes in the ChangeLog. The issue at hand is whether to have them in the commit messages, not in ChangeLog. ChangeLog entries always include file and function information, it's been like that since day one.