From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? 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[76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id dy6sm7068392pab.48.2016.03.08.13.23.25 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:23:25 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7347A135F1200; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:23:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6ba429fd-5c27-c925-58db-f4cd1d1865a5@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2016 23:16:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.92 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Gutov , David Caldwell , =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::233 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:201209 Archived-At: >>>>> Dmitry Gutov writes: > On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote: >> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but >> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it >> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal. > How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after > making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully. What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents: Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay attention to it. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2