From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master cbef1e9 2/3: ; make change-history-commit Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:33:48 +0300 Message-ID: <5528A42C.40009@yandex.ru> References: <20150409172246.20602.44549@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87y4m1rkuq.fsf@panthera.terpri.org> <5527626E.7040307@cs.ucla.edu> 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 1428726856 10991 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2015 04:34:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:34:16 +0000 (UTC) To: Paul Eggert , Robin Templeton , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 11 06:34:11 2015 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 1Ygn7S-0007mh-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:34:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ygn7P-0002z2-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:34:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ygn7D-0002yj-2F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ygn79-0005uq-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:33:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::231]:34613) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ygn79-0005uP-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: by widjs5 with SMTP id js5so27987370wid.1 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:33:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yzCmYosAp7zJcZBALBE+GSf+AMnfDem+smIAyEpSEXI=; b=WA1+tIdThuvPeN1Zr+7dOELAN+SnFkYk/9Q7uhy9YfF2kJNN6Sp67nk9fLxRit1Dxr tO7Fm7J033ViYh9C8fYZ/GmqEXmNHFTNDEEvbCccjPCqCmLyYxHY4B0+ONDi9HBihacx SVOTYo1Cu7Whiz6N+kR+YXOY7kwDUUreaQ6JW3RTCjKF3sldN/fuFPBUzQxt8G+KZsoZ yF2L5fBHrvWaUrDfz0Goj9HXyZ43VSxmo6vjRchEg5XPgG1JvRyGt+hSYtM/svygLUAH D2zGuzhs7N8PWPJ1X9EpMg0N5d1yFe7YAl0Ujk4pfNxbEUyXVKhUtzdc3lYdzzRaG/3c 0ozA== X-Received: by 10.194.200.194 with SMTP id ju2mr8317512wjc.61.1428726830992; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([82.102.93.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f8sm1076385wiy.7.2015.04.10.21.33.49 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:33:50 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 In-Reply-To: <5527626E.7040307@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::231 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:185277 Archived-At: On 04/10/2015 08:41 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Glenn did suggest object > notes, but as I understand it Emacs VC doesn't support them. You could bring that up as a feature request, but that'd require at least an API proposal, especially since other VCS don't have features similar to notes (do they?), but anyway... > So I went > with the best easy-enough approach that I could think of, an approach > based on Emacs's tradition of ChangeLog history files. If we can think > of something better, we should switch to it. ...I think the current approach is pretty clever, in how it required very few Elisp changes, and still provides the main benefits.