From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS commits and logs Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:50:29 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87r6wh1o5h.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162950973 21410 80.91.229.2 (8 Nov 2006 01:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, Reiner Steib , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 08 02:56:09 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 1Ghcfg-00020K-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:56:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ghcff-0007ol-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GhcfT-0007oA-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GhcfR-0007nr-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhcfR-0007nm-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.81] (helo=mgate01.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GhcfL-0005zU-P9; Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com (relay21 [10.29.19.50]) by mgate01.necel.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kA7Luq0P003479; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:55:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:55:42 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:55:42 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 1B5E259; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:50:30 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue\, 07 Nov 2006 22\:33\:19 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 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:61940 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Why couldn't you find those changes through lisp/gnus/ChangeLog? They > should all appear near one another. Probably he could have, but the closer the commit log and the changelog entry are in form, the easier it is. [A similar issue is when people "fix up" changelog entries when merging from one branch to another; sometimes this is unavoidable, but often it's gratuitous. When I want to find the changelog entry for the same change in two different branches (gnus/emacs usually), this sort of change can be a real headache.] -Miles -- My books focus on timeless truths. -- Donald Knuth