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: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/bookmark.el,v Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:20 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87y6zggnmz.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227159585 21792 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2008 05:39:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karl Fogel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 06:40:46 2008 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 1L32HU-0004Jv-Q4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:40:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L32GL-00062x-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:39:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L32GH-00061j-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:39:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L32GG-00060P-6d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:39:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36695 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L32GG-00060I-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:39:28 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:63784) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L32GB-0006i0-WA; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:39:25 -0500 Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mAK5cfLx000970; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:21 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:20 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:20 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 84B143E2; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:39:20 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87y6zggnmz.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:50:44 -0500") Original-Lines: 17 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:105845 Archived-At: Karl Fogel writes: > As an aside: it's very difficult to review & respond to commits to > Emacs, because the ChangeLog entry arrives in a separate email from the > diff. If the change package were kept intact (i.e., arrived as one > email, the way every other project in the universe does it), we'd > probably get more review here. I'd suggest tracking the git mirror instead; it does a pretty good job of packaging up related file changes into single commits, as long as the user committed them all at once with CVS. Many people _don't_ do that, of course, but that's largely for historical reasons, and hopefully they can be convinced to start doing so. -Miles -- Advice, n. The smallest current coin.