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, 04 Jan 2018 05:33:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgheb8n8.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> <83608kck4c.fsf@gnu.org> <544c170f-99bd-c701-3063-c697296a30a6@cs.ucla.edu> <83po6rar9c.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9mabwks.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv1ubrlu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515036741 4984 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 03:32:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 03:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 04:32:17 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 1eWwGO-00010J-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:32:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWwIN-0000Ag-Mh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWwHU-0000AG-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWwHP-0004Ej-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWwHP-0004Ed-1C; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2747 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eWwHN-0001j4-TG; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:33:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:02:03 -0500) 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:221576 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:02:03 -0500 > > I look at the feature's code, dig in with vc-region-history to get the > corresponding commit, and that gives me the date. That will only give you the latest change there. For something before that, you are back to the original problem. > vc-region-history is almost always the first thing I use when it comes > to "commit/changelog" info. And that's also where the subject of this > thread hurts (I sometimes resort to making a "git worktree add" to get > the revision before the file was moved, and use vc-region-history on > that to see the rest of the history). I find all of those needed, but I also find ChangeLog to be of help.