From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VCS forensics (was: Optimizing tty display update) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:32:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83h71ea32i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835yhwd3z4.fsf@gnu.org> <88387d9e-3717-fd62-9912-bfd571250033@gmail.com> <83pmg39uim.fsf@gnu.org> <87k06a67j4.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36806"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gerd =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 11 07:54:02 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oXFus-0009Qm-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:54:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60048 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXFuq-0005z4-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58778) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXFaS-0005lt-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:32:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXFaR-0006HH-7T; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:32:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=ZwQvuNlgURaJzEcUFQ2oS2d+lW844b38ABSHGAkVJjQ=; b=dYyCirbTa/JJgBuxpbwJ 1fb0b8gqdU8/JHQqKeH2ncR/LoZaEw2IQseHRrbyGqKvUtTFSS6K2aFWpRBkDtxZIZlJUcwOSUeUl C7TzEhdbYm6r950mRVfqWMeMe3tMNAxBbvw0/s2GgVDsUV91lreRiY713ObNCG3oUMlwOs0h8fF8S rOdhp0jvaaehM5bhMwfWWaRkRXBmT1LsI0kWyLbqludkOyM/PJ0FkjU2/BmN08/Js9RU1/E6wG670 eSubZtuPJq1DR3YEPNRbsH+nHxQMLVUOusfIPmdoAU9MAW5OSyoZAlZ4FVS1fGZLovFogfZ99t5n5 UZ/yQH3kTs4gTw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4822 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXFaQ-0003Jg-Mz; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 01:32:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gerd =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=B6llmann?= on Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:44:03 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:295157 Archived-At: > From: Gerd Möllmann > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > tomas@tuxteam.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:44:03 +0200 > > Too bad that the commit history of all that stufff was lost when I > integrated it into the RCS "repo" on gnu.org, which was just a shared > directory. The commits would have been a nice proof what a major PITA > the optimization were, for years. That, and making stuff > backward-compatible. The ChangeLogs told only a fraction of the story > because I edited them and gave them all the date of integration. Which > looked reasonable at the time :-). Which is why I never rebase my branches when I merge them: I want to have all the history of the feature development available forever. (This will probably trigger a flurry of messages telling us that rebasing is the best invention since sliced bread.)