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: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:06:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <8761q1ljny.fsf@gmail.com> <20140103175006.GE17261@thyrsus.com> <87iou0t72n.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87a9fb99qg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87wqif7b04.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388869633 10073 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 21:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 21:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Achim Gratz Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 22:07:18 2014 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 1VzYR7-0003Ji-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:07:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzYR6-0007It-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzYQx-0007Ih-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzYQp-00011w-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:56860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzYQp-00011q-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:06:55 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYeBQULCw4mEhQYDSQuh3AGwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IPAS-Result: Av8EABK/CFG4rwsm/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYeBQULCw4mEhQYDSQuh3AGwS2RCgOIYZwZgV6DFQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="43997478" Original-Received: from 184-175-11-38.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.11.38]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 04 Jan 2014 16:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AE8D7604AC; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 16:06:54 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wqif7b04.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz's message of "Sat, 04 Jan 2014 21:22:35 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:167330 Archived-At: >> The main issues were (and are) the following: >> - How to edit past commit messages when they're >> incorrect/incomplete/...? > Git notes still seems like a good solution. AFAIK "git notes" is a low-level tool which clever scripts might be able to leverage to provide the ability to "edit past commit messages". I've never seen those clever scripts, tho. >> - How to do C-x 4 a when there's no ChangeLog file? > You don't need to. I do. > I'm usually writing the commit messages as I stage > the diffs for the upcoming commit. I also frequently rewrite commits > before pushing them upstream. Extracting that information from a > ChangeLog to build the commit message is completely backwards with that C-x 4 a has nothing to do with extracting the message from the ChangeLog. I usually use C-x 4 a from the *vc-diff* buffer. Stefan