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? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:53:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83pouyfk6k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuw090k7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y49spuxt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov4achc.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83r3fkpb3u.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> <56E066BD.5050403@cs.ucla.edu> <83wpp9jt82.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov1dje9.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457884530 30408 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2016 15:55:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:55:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 16:55:25 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 1af8MX-0004BF-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:55:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af8MW-0001qk-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af8Lj-0001CE-Oh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af8Lg-0000EL-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af8Lg-0000EH-Gq; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:54:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4213 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1af8LY-00057m-Q4; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:54:25 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:33:16 -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: 2.1.14 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:201595 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 17:33:16 -0500 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Personally, I think that handling cherry-picking and rebasing is > very secondary. We use the former for backporting changes from master. As for the latter, I think quite a few people who track the development and contribute patches do that, so I think it's important for their workflows to be undisturbed.