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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: I'm working on getting the pretest out, but...
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:16:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd162e16b.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8760bu3ak8.fsf@petton.fr

> I'm fixing errors in ChangeLog entries one by one (there are more than
> 200), which is a bit tedious.
> This problem seems to reoccur for each first pretest of a major
> release.  Many commit messages have wrong file paths, which is an easy
> mistake to make since there's no check being performed (Magit and VC
> can help with that though).

Maybe we could this problem by making it unnecessary to adjust
the ChangeLog.
IOW why is it so important to have the exact right file names in there?


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04 20:47 I'm working on getting the pretest out, but Nicolas Petton
2017-10-05  3:16 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-10-05  8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-05 21:14   ` Nicolas Petton
2017-10-06  9:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-06 15:16     ` Richard Stallman

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