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: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:59:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87twg05nqf.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83a8hla8nx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468429238 891 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2016 17:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:00:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 13 19:00:30 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 1bNNWK-0003L2-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:00:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49039 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNWF-0005G4-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNW8-0005Cb-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNW2-00054m-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNW2-00053e-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bNNW0-000398-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.156.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:00:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-156-121.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BxE3rbF6h0iGhcZLcRqoKKi61Jg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205663 Archived-At: >> The main reason I can see is that we can't fix them after-the fact >> because Git doesn't support that feature. > Yes, this is a common need and Git should be changed to allow editing > of commit log entries even though this could be said to change the > state of the prior releases. This has been hashed and rehashed: no, you don't need to change history for that. You only need to make "git log" pay attention to erratas added later on. IOW, if you "git checkout emacs-24.1; git log" you'd get the commit entries as they were when the emacs-24.1 commit-id was committed, which may be different from the entries you see if you do "get checkout master; git log" since some of the old entries may have been fixed in the mean time. Stefan