From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog?
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:29:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1D67RL-0004QmC@rattlesnake.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a05022814485fe422fb@mail.gmail.com> (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:48:27 +0900)
You make a good point that not everyone uses CVS, so ChangeLogs
produced by CVS are not so good.
_All_ code changes (maybe not comment and doc changes) should have
entries in the [big] ChangeLog file.
This means we need to change the Emacs Manual. Currently,
(emacs)Types of Log File
says
When you use version control, you can use just the per-file log if
you wish, or you can use both kinds of logs. ...
This could be restated as
emacs/man/files.texi
Types of Log File
When you use a version control system that provides a per-file
log, you should use @strong{both} the the per-file log and the
more general @file{ChangeLog}. This is because it is inconvenient
or impossible for someone using a different version control system
to access another version control system's per-file log. This
policy is different from the past, when you recorded small changes
in the per-file log only.
Typically you want to write just one entry for each change. You
can write the entry in @file{ChangeLog}, using the @kbd{C-x 4 a}
command (@pxref{Change Log}), and then copy it to the log buffer
when you check in the change. Or you can write the entry in the
log buffer while checking in the change, using the @kbd{C-x v v}
command, and later use the @kbd{C-x v a} command to copy it to the
more general @file{ChangeLog} (@pxref{Change Logs and VC}).
--
Robert J. Chassell
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2005-03-01 13:29 ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2005-03-01 14:12 ` ChangeLog? Stefan Monnier
2005-03-01 15:06 ` ChangeLog? Kim F. Storm
2005-03-01 16:11 ` ChangeLog? Stefan Monnier
2005-03-03 2:27 ` ChangeLog? Richard Stallman
2005-03-03 3:20 ` ChangeLog? Miles Bader
2005-03-03 20:57 ` ChangeLog? Richard Stallman
2005-03-04 0:41 ` ChangeLog? Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-04 0:53 ` ChangeLog? Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-04 1:35 ` ChangeLog? Miles Bader
2005-03-04 13:42 ` ChangeLog? Robert J. Chassell
2005-03-04 1:49 ` ChangeLog? Nick Roberts
2005-03-04 23:46 ` ChangeLog? Richard Stallman
2005-03-04 23:46 ` ChangeLog? Richard Stallman
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