From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: magit, changelogs and commit formatting Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:20:04 +0800 Message-ID: <87k2rxq66j.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87wpvxq837.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <55F2F833.2060300@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441988620 25257 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2015 16:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:23:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 18:23:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZaR6R-0004yf-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:23:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaR6R-0005Wg-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaR6F-0005Wa-UM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaR6C-0004K9-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaR6B-0004K0-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZaR5O-0003uz-S8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:22:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 123.118.189.87 ([123.118.189.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 123.118.189.87 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:22:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.118.189.87 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ySbwbYCr5jVbksPlUS3cEhlf80M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107152 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov writes: > Hi Eric, > > On 09/11/2015 06:38 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I know we're supposed to move to automatically-generated changelogs Real >> Soon Now, but in the meantime... > > We've transitioned to it already. I thought I was paying attention! Sorry. >> I'm having a bit of confusion about the best way to format git patches >> for Emacs packages. > > Not sure about third-party packages, but for patches for Emacs, see > CONTRIBUTE. That clears up most of my questions, thank you. I'd still be interested in seeing actual workflows, from whoever was willing to share. I contribute occasionally to Gnus, Org and BBDB, and each package seems to have its own particular relationship with the general Emacs codebase. But generally speaking, that answers the question. Thanks! Eric