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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:10:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2lbo4ba.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83bn6quugw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457550661 25721 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 19:11:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:10:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adjVS-00082E-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:10:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjVR-0004kB-Qc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39877) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjV5-0004if-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjV5-0002ko-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:10:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adjUz-0002hk-Im; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4175 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adjUy-0000sf-O9; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:10:21 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:52:53 +0600) 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201288 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:52:53 +0600 > Cc: John Wiegley , Emacs developers > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > "git log -p" cannot do the job for changes in many types of files. > > For example, try it on Lisp or Texinfo files. > > I assume you are talking about the function header that is displayed > in the hunk headers John was. > Git can in fact be configured to recognize “functions” differently, > per file type. Yes, I know. But how many people have done that, and how many of them will be able to cough up the right regex for whatever language they need?