From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuw090k7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y49spuxt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov4achc.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83r3fkpb3u.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> <56E066BD.5050403@cs.ucla.edu> <83wpp9jt82.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov1dje9.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457816961 18557 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2016 21:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 22:09:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeqmc-0004c6-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeqmb-0003Ds-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:09:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeqmP-0003DL-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeqmO-0003cR-Iz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:57 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:51471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeqmK-0003bt-Ot; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u2CL9FAW008688; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CB955AE33B; Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:08:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:26:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV5608=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5608> : inlines <4489> : streams <1601903> : uri <2164433> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201556 Archived-At: >> For me a solution which doesn't work (efficiently enough) with >> vc-region-history and vc-print-log is just pointless. > We could modify them to check whatever mechanism, when working with Git. In theory it's possible, yes. But Someone=E2=84=A2 needs to figure out how= to do it efficiently enough, and then Someone=E2=84=A2 needs to actually do it. Stefan