From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T.V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ChangeLogs on CVS? Commit netiquette. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:07:01 -0800 Message-ID: <5f0ff9221002181207v3244055ax3b3223833a901609@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266523637 20756 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2010 20:07:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:07:17 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , Juanma Barranquero , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= , ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 21:07:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1NiCeW-0005KP-8k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:07:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiCeV-0003pf-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiCeP-0003o7-V8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57218 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiCeP-0003mN-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiCeO-0002Vb-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:59234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiCeN-0002VH-Sz; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: by pwj7 with SMTP id 7so1619405pwj.0 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:07:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3a+p1AmH92kqvsK+MHfCSVcy/BeKXbTHRUHOg8cQiCU=; b=T9ll6vYtDqCOTDJlKtU0P8Vsq82vRzZKZer4Azb83KY0jQcwSdrMoM0ToWei32wYG3 lWi9wRoN2YPyhpfRwUi5ixgJk0g1wTnmZm+el1vmgfeGwUjPZTA1vbhhyWD3OSPpmOjQ Iv9gpSRVG7ow8SPsPlvORQ5YTiuJekG5EzVFM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=bXBaAF9XVTYmyZfda27e3d6m18c0Dcn8+zMQ4EIuiGPiF2gnK2ymWyrMTVi10kJG/4 2kN7DOBQQ+XpDxXVIdqURSnxgqLWW4C/jyJpKbjafV1JmmaaKvVlySQm6rNZ+8Fka+7m FoAn8BkOzun2lLGjqXacDXd4k9ddiS17IDxAM= Original-Received: by 10.142.152.11 with SMTP id z11mr6748341wfd.71.1266523621477; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:07:01 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121198 Archived-At: Friends, My cvs snapshot of emacs has Changelog files only upto the end of 2009 --- has the repository moved, or are there just no changelogs any more? On 2/18/10, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> This seems more of a short comming in `bzr log --short' than in the >>> way one writes commit messages. > > Not really: it's the whole idea behing "bzr log --short". > >> We currently *have* policies about ChangeLog entries and commit logs, >> so I agree with =D3scar: it is a good practice and we should require >> people to follow it; and treat people who doesn't the same way we >> treat people who mangles ChangeLog entries (that is, a gentle but firm >> reminder that we have guideliness and we're all expected to follow >> them). > > Yes, please, we should require the first line of commit messages to be > an acceptable summary of the whole changeset. > > Could someone update log-edit-mode's font-lock patterns so that the > first line is highlighted specially (at least in the Bzr and Arch > cases)? > > I think log-edit-mode should even go further in this direction. > The buffer should be created as > > ---------------- > Author: > Summary: > > blablabla > ---------------- > > where is the text taken from the ChangeLog. Then for > backends which support the notion of summary-line, C-c C-c could just > signal an error if the Summary line is still blank. > After that, empty header entries will get removed and the text is passed > as-is to the backend who is then free to pass it as-is to the underlying > VCS or to extract the various fields and do whatever it feels like > with them. > > > Stefan > > >