From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating ChangeLog files. Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:28:10 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52C78DDA.3010405@cs.ucla.edu> References: <871u0otnht.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388809705 28516 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 04:28:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 04:28:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 05:28:31 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 1VzIqc-0006Kb-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 05:28:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53091 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIqc-0007AO-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIqR-0007AH-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:28:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIqK-0003Tn-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:28:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:59774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIqK-0003Tg-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:28:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A425E39E8106 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:28:11 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WJXwEP1IyRS5 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:28:11 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2932A39E8105 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:28:11 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <871u0otnht.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:167253 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa wrote: > I'd like to see all related changes for a single commit as a > single ChangeLog entry. Isn't it possible to have a single > ChangeLog file in the top directory? I'd also prefer this. I use vc-dwim to generate commit logs automatically from ChangeLog entries. It works better when it doesn't have to merge ChangeLog entries from different files. I don't see much advantage to having ChangeLog files all over the place; one per project is simpler and better.