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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:15 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56DEFA1B.5010401@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <20160306220502.GA23154@thyrsus.com> <8760wx442f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87twkhc8yp.fsf@mat.ucm.es> 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 1457453628 32641 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 16:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:13:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 17:13:38 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 1adKGM-0003Uz-Sy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:13:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKGM-0002vR-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:13:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKGD-0002th-Sl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:13:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKG8-0003RS-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:34769) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKG8-0003R5-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:13:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52798160504 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:19 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id sd3J0zmyM6iZ for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB073160E8A for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:18 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id oh52WxgYrjDc for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81F3D160504 for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:13:18 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <87twkhc8yp.fsf@mat.ucm.es> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:201162 Archived-At: Uwe Brauer wrote: > > For this reasons, I have an (untracked) ChangeLog file in all > > my repositories. This way I can use C-x 4 a to write a ChangeLog entry > > in the "good old way" and then VC will automatically copy that data into > > the*VC-Log* buffer for me to commit it. > > > That's what I do also. Me too, except I track the ChangeLog file in a *separate* git repository (i.e., not in the git repository that holds emacs). This separate repository is automatically managed by vc-dwim.