From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Gilbert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why maintain old style ChangeLog? Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:00:26 -0400 Message-ID: <44iq24i4ad.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291867517 3624 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:05:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 05:05:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQXkV-0001yI-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:04:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXkU-0005t4-Ab for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:04:54 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:00:27 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e72wctLUXPbpn7psxWhdKxqQzac= Original-Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.78.145 Original-X-Trace: sv3-GaoFiLMr8mBTlE1Af6iWUk5NNqOnMsPaiX55ZeWdmhDAEV2x5SM0xLV8/QlKTWK3gxXxenAxWoUKOVM!cedQZYPu2Z+8ISmjvue1djRHLrJzbZi14RmCCHELuUg7ZXIMdpMvW9pUw4BKKM+pd7P6z0E0BGUG!cqxz3wkenQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181356 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76606 Archived-At: Oleksandr Gavenko writes: > But back to the original question. > > Does need prepare ChangeLog entry for patch at current time? I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but I suspect the answer should be "not in most environments, but definitely in some environments." > And does need maintain ChangeLog at all in view > of modern VCS tools? In situations where someone may have access to the source code but not the VCS, maintaining a changelog can be a very considerate thing to do.