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) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:32:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83efmx6862.fsf@gnu.org> References: <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> <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515598283 20530 195.159.176.226 (10 Jan 2018 15:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sb@dod.no, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 16:31:18 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 1eZILV-0004z9-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:31:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZINV-0005c2-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:33:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZINJ-0005bA-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZING-0001Lh-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZINF-0001LZ-V6; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:33:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2177 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZIN8-0005hT-8t; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 10:32:58 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:22:04 -0800) 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:221792 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:22:04 -0800 > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > More generally, if a fact is obvious from the diff listing, the fact needn't > appear in the change log entry (and this is true regardless of whether the fact > is described or explained). People who are curious about the fact can look at > the diff listing and easily figure it out. Don't forget that this requires an easy access to the diffs, which in practice means a Git repository nearby.