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: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:58:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83mw2ttm3a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551A528C.7080008@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427803167 22315 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2015 11:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 13:59:19 2015 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 1Ycup7-00010o-K6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38225 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycup2-0007vS-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycuom-0007p3-6f for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycuoh-0007cJ-8N for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:38789) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycuoh-0007cF-09 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM200600RP88G00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:56:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM200188RTFFY50@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:56:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <551A528C.7080008@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:184609 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:53:48 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > > as discussed in Bug#19113 on April 7 we plan to revamp the Emacs master > commit procedure to eliminate the second copy, so that ordinary commits do not > alter ChangeLog files. Instead, the ChangeLog file in the Emacs distribution > will be generated automatically from recent Git commit messages. Can we please do this on emacs-24 as well? I think it would be a nuisance to have a different procedure for each branch. It might also make merging from emacs-24 onto master harder. Thanks.