From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Commit netiquette. Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:14:34 +0200 Message-ID: <837hq5x5xx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eikjzaug.fsf@telefonica.net> <87vdds6lmc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83ljeovvd0.fsf@gnu.org> <87pr3y6mks.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266813510 29992 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 04:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 05:38:25 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 1NjPgy-0001aS-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:14:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjPgy-0002fN-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NjPgs-0002eL-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46492 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjPgq-0002dM-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjPgp-0000qC-Fq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjPgo-0000pi-8d; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KY800400681CH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:14:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.213.68]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KY8003QP6G85C70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:14:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87pr3y6mks.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:121273 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:17:23 +0900 > > > However, the "SUMMARY:" part just wastes precious real estate of the > > single line produced by "bzr log --line". > > Eh? I'm confused... I don't mean they should literally write the string > "SUMMARY:" Then it is my misunderstanding, sorry. I thought you did mean "SUMMARY: bla-bla" literally. > and I was talking about ChangeLog files, not commit-logs. Most people simply copy the former into the latter. > What I was advocating was, _in ChangeLog files_, a style like: > > 2010-02-22 Miles Bader > > > Frobbed the grot system: > * grot-blah.el (fun1, fun2): Blurged frebly. > * grot-zung.el (fun3): Nug n ug. > * some-grup.el (zoon): Wabawaba. > > This isn't always necessary for small/trivial changes, but for longer > ones, i think it's a useful addition. Right, and I think many, if not most, already do that.