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: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:25:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov5rmt6.fsf@gnu.org> <56DFD78F.40205@cs.ucla.edu> <56E06093.7050509@cs.ucla.edu> <83twkfo7ij.fsf@gnu.org> <20160309181005.GF3948@acm.fritz.box> <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457558743 28279 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 21:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:25:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 22:25:35 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 1adlbp-0004vh-2p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:25:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlbo-0006Eu-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:25:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlbl-0006DK-2P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlbh-0004EC-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adlbh-0004Dq-92; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.DIT.UMontreal.CA (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u29LP3lC022041; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 92AC86030E; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:25:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:34:54 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5605=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5605> : inlines <4472> : streams <1600327> : uri <2162194> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:201326 Archived-At: >> > Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit >> > messages to be amended. (Only half joking.) >> These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly. Any suggestion? > Mercurial. It has the hg histedit command. AFAIK this is the same as Git's rebase, i.e. it leads to a different commit id, so it can't really be used on branches like "master" and "emacs-25" where we do merges and things like that. Stefan