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: Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution? Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:15:43 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <546AABCF.8030705@cs.ucla.edu> References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416276993 2888 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2014 02:16:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ulrich Mueller , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: =?UTF-8?B?UsO8ZGlnZXIgU29uZGVyZmVsZA==?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 03:16:26 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 1XqYL9-000665-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50998 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYL8-0003LV-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYKt-00035F-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYKm-0000OE-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:33086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqYKl-0000J2-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C95FA60076; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:15:52 -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 ykMb1f6-jc-r; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:15:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8EDBCA60071; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:15:43 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> 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:177512 Archived-At: R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld wrote: > I guess the best solution to deal with it, > would be to move it from Gnulib to git/contrib. An even better solution would be to generate the ChangeLog automatically = from=20 the git commit log, as is done in several other GNU projects. This is on= our=20 list of things to do for Emacs. Once it's done, Emacs shouldn't need=20 git-merge-changelog.