From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:25:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9bq825110.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhchv3qba.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:05:14 -0500")
[ The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has
been posted to news:gmane.emacs.devel as well. ]
On Thu, Jan 03 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> 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.
Currently our ChangeLogs contain information about the contributor
which is not necessarily identical to the committer. Would a recent
VCS hold this information in a form that an automatically regenerated
ChangeLog contains it too?
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ 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
2008-01-03 16:25 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-01-03 16:48 ` Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) 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
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