ChangeLogs on CVS? Commit netiquette.

["T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com>]

And following up:

Browsed that url, and discovered that I needed to add /trunk to
the bzr url.
But that got me to the next hole, on my Ubuntu Hardy box, the bzr
I have seems to be not new enough --- Ugg!
bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/
bzr: ERROR: Unknown branch format: 'Bazaar Branch Format 7 (needs bzr 1.6)\n'
16:20:41 retriever bzr-emacs $

aptitude show bzr
Package: bzr
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 1.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 15.0M
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         python-celementtree, python (< 2.6), python-central (>= 0.6.5)
Recommends: bzrtools, python-paramiko
Suggests: bzr-gtk, bzr-svn, python-pycurl, xdg-utils
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16:20:26 retriever bzr-emacs $

On 2/18/10, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> "T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@gmail.com> writes:
>>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?
>
> Hi, T.V.!  Emacs switched to Bazaar.  Please see
>
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs
>
> and ask any questions here, of course.
>
> Best,
> -Karl
>
>
>>On 2/18/10, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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 Óscar: 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 <blablabla> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>