From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 17970@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17970: log-edit creates unwanted ChangeLog buffers
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:54:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ttucw1z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00k37m32rj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 17970@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:39:28 -0400
>
> The point of this stuff is to prepopulate the vc log buffer with the
> relevant ChangeLog entries. If the ChangeLog does not exist, then
> obviously it is not going to find any. It does not show you the
> ChangeLog buffer that it creates or in any way notify you, so I do not
> see how this would help you in the scenario that you meant to write a
> ChangeLog entry but forgot, which I presume is what you were referring
> to. Could you give an example?
>
> >> (Then we need an ignore-file parser.)
> >
> > With one file name per line, I wouldn't call it a "parser", really.
>
> They contain wildcards, ! and ** patterns, etc.
>
> >> Why would you have an unversioned ChangeLog
> >
> > I didn't say I would. What I meant was that if ChangeLog is in the
> > ignore file, that's a sign that a non-existent ChangeLog file should
> > not be visited, since this repository doesn't want such files.
>
> Why would you ignore a file that it not expected to exist in your repo?
I don't really know what else to say. I've written everything I could
about this, and it sounds pretty clear to me. If none of that makes
sense, feel free to ignore. I will know to keep my mouth shut next
time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-09 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-08 2:35 bug#17970: log-edit creates unwanted ChangeLog buffers Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 7:09 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 15:41 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-09 16:39 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-07-09 20:17 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 3:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-10 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-10 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-10 16:54 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-10 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-10 17:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-10 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-09 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-09 20:19 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-09 22:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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