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: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:34:54 +0000 Message-ID: <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> References: <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov5rmt6.fsf@gnu.org> <56DFD78F.40205@cs.ucla.edu> <56E06093.7050509@cs.ucla.edu> <83twkfo7ij.fsf@gnu.org> <20160309181005.GF3948@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457551958 15384 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 19:32:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:32:29 2016 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 1adjqP-0007po-Ib for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjqO-0007qm-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjqK-0007nU-Sk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjqH-0001bB-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:32:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:31626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjqG-0001ad-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:32:20 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 9966 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Mar 2016 19:32:18 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548A46A1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.138.70.161]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:32:16 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 12243 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Mar 2016 19:34:54 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 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:201300 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:09:53PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit > > messages to be amended. (Only half joking.) > These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly. Any suggestion? Mercurial. It has the hg histedit command. Or there's always CVS. :-) > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).