From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: lisp/ChangeLog Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:24:05 +1300 Message-ID: <17220.46325.198075.537427@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128579932 2343 80.91.229.2 (6 Oct 2005 06:25:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 06:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 08:25:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENPBr-0002QD-0N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENPBp-0001zw-TK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENPAc-0001uU-RT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:23:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENPAb-0001u7-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENPAa-0001u1-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ENPAa-0003rm-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p119-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.119]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA7C6D02CA for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:23:53 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id D2AB083B1; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:24:05 +1300 (NZDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:43606 Archived-At: lisp/ChangeLog is not only the largest file (over 1MB) but it's also the most frequently checked in. For those like me, who are too tight to pay for broadband, it takes a long time to commit (over four minutes using -z3). The scaling seems worse than linear or perhaps I'm just getting more grumpy in my old age. I realise that we might no want to split it because the release, like tomorrow, is not far away but can we agree after the release to change it annually e.g ChangeLog-2006, ChangeLog-2007 etc. This is what GDB do and it's less arbitrary. I estimate that for Emacs it will result in files that are about 500kB in size, which is plenty big enough. Nick