From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 05:42:06 +0300 Message-ID: <838t6hfa4h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <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> <838t6jgl1k.fsf@gnu.org> <601m6cc6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83o9fefnv9.fsf@gnu.org> <83in5lg4ol.fsf@gnu.org> <83efg9fxnj.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531363262 7423 195.159.176.226 (12 Jul 2018 02:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 02:41:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 12 04:40:58 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 1fdRXO-0001oo-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:40:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdRZU-0007QH-SC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdRYi-0007NT-Oa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:42:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdRYX-000710-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:42:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdRYX-00070J-ES; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:42:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2880 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fdRYV-00036M-GO; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:42:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= on Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:36:56 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:227268 Archived-At: > From: João Távora > Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:36:56 +0100 > Cc: Ted Zlatanov , Clément Pit-Claudel , > larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > To be fair, there isn't even any copy-paste involved if you use vc-next-action and such. > > But that doesn't mean it's not horribly impractical. I hate the ChangeLog buffers, especially how they interact > with save-some-buffers because invariably I end up saving them inadvertently. Why is it a problem to save ChangeLog to its file? Our .gitignore already ignores such a file. I have a local ChangeLog file full of log messages I used for commits I pushed. > Would a patch for this be welcome? I'd need to see the patch, of course. For now, I'm afraid I don't understand the problem.