From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:34 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87bmj6dda0.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87vahe911g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87374id7jy.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <877ett8g7k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> <86608msw0h.fsf@dod.no> <838tdiet25.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3li4vh7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <7c7503b4-1f82-8a25-fedd-c61c3e7629f6@cs.ucla.edu> <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515436841 27692 195.159.176.226 (8 Jan 2018 18:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:40:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 Cc: sb@dod.no, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 08 19:40:37 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eYcLW-0006So-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYcNV-0000CV-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYcMt-0000Bz-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYcMs-0005fs-JX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eYcMo-0005cc-Jw; Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:41:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E392D1615D0; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:48 -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 OZod_KuSBRKE; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB811615AF; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:34 -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 ufspvQ6Yk9KW; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C518C16158A; Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:41:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221716 Archived-At: On 01/08/2018 10:30 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > there's no need to explain why a certain variable is static. Sometimes there is, sometimes there isn't. If it's important enough to mention the change from extern to static in the commit message, the current guidelines would seem to imply that it's important enough to mention why the change was made in code comments. Another possibility would be to say that trivial changes like this one (where the change and its intent are obvious-enough from the diff) don't need to be mentioned in the ChangeLog. That would be OK.