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: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:48:59 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141030024859.GA28774@thyrsus.com> References: <20141029105202.249acb5a@anarchist.wooz.org> <87bnouapiy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029150600.GA5701@thyrsus.com> <20141029141216.7abbbc0d@anarchist.wooz.org> <20141029222946.GA13673@thyrsus.com> <545178BE.2050505@cs.ucla.edu> <20141030021030.GA27845@thyrsus.com> <54519EB3.7020800@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414637374 18442 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2014 02:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 30 03:49:28 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 1Xjfng-0006Fm-NZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 03:49:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjfng-0000Fv-6t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjfnM-0000FJ-Tc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjfnI-0008UA-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:36268 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjfnH-0008U6-Tt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6C3D5382BA9; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54519EB3.7020800@cs.ucla.edu> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:176048 Archived-At: Paul Eggert : > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >I am sketching the design of a tool > >to query git log in my head even as I write. > > I suggest using Gnulib's gitlog-to-changelog script. Or improve it, > if it needs improvements. Several other GNU projects use it. I will investagate, thank you. -- Eric S. Raymond