From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Commit practices Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:02 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071230064402.GA26849@thyrsus.com> References: <20071229141014.3364A2C83DC@grelber.thyrsus.com> <20071229183244.GA23998@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198997057 6111 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2007 06:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 30 07:44:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J8ruQ-0006Lu-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:44:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8ru5-0006wH-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8ru1-0006uq-1g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J8rtz-0006sH-0r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J8rty-0006sE-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J8rtv-0008WM-9b; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:43:59 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 23) id 378FF830B9A; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:44:02 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:85664 Archived-At: Richard Stallman : > In effect, the suggestion here is that we abandon the idea > of useful readable info associated by the VCS with each file. Right. Information about changes is most useful when it has *changeset* granularity, not file granularity. > That would mean that the ChangeLog file is the only place > for such info. No, it means that the information now in the Changelog belongs in the CVS history, but with per-commit granularity rather than per-file granularity. > I won't say "absolutely not". Good. I'm preparing a post with a major proposal about this. -- Eric S. Raymond