From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:09:52 +0000 Message-ID: <20140303180952.GA3841@acm.acm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393870488 23229 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2014 18:14:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:14:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 03 19:14:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1WKXOA-0007ob-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKXO9-0005Ir-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKXMr-0003cu-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKXMi-0005z1-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:36533 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WKXMi-0005yj-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 44373 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Mar 2014 18:13:21 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951890E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.137.14]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:13:21 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5692 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 2014 18:09:52 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 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:170099 Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 06:09:16PM +0100, Juanma Barranquero wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS > I disagree. One feels at this stage that a critical amount of context has been expunged here. Is this a side-thread of a previously existing thread? If so, what was its subject? What is meant by a ChangeLog "entry"? The ChangeLog is a text file, therefore its entries are trivially "usable" (whatever that's meant to mean) by visiting it in Emacs. Is somebody proposing making ChangeLog entries somehow "unusable"? If so, I'm against such a proposal. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).