From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhchv3qba.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JAMi9-0007sp-AL@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:50:01 -0500")
> On a related note, with current VCS making ChangeLog file less relevant,
> it'd also make sense to make C-x 4 a jump to the *VC-log* buffer,
> Recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file more important. The
> reason I dropped my opposition to multi-file commits is that I
> realized that the info I used to get by looking at a CVS log, I could get
> from the ChangeLog file instead with a suitable selective visibility
> mode.
From what I can see, recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file less
important because it can be automatically regenerated from the
commit logs. And by "automatically regenerated" I really mean that the
output is just as good, or even identical.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 14:28 Selection-set editing without VC-dired Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 14:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 4:55 ` Bob Rogers
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-01-03 16:25 ` Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Reiner Steib
2008-01-03 16:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-05 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-05 5:55 ` Selection-set editing without VC-dired Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 19:56 ` merging the unicode-2 branch (was: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 9:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-05 22:29 ` merging the unicode-2 branch Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 18:10 ` merging the unicode-2 branch (was: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 3:02 ` merging the unicode-2 branch Miles Bader
2008-01-07 5:50 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-07 8:20 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 14:48 ` Miles Bader
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-30 14:36 Selection-set editing without VC-dired Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 15:03 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-30 15:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-12-30 23:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-31 0:49 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-31 1:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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