From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:00:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83si02te8a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oaaquvif.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457370125 20702 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 17:02:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 17:02:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 18:01:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1acyXZ-00020U-37 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:01:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57164 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyXY-0006nl-9E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWp-0005gV-Vi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:01:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWk-00028Z-Do for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWk-00028R-4Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWj-0006Uv-Uz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:01:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21998 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21998-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21998.145737005124955 (code B ref 21998); Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21998) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Mar 2016 17:00:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38298 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWZ-0006UR-BJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46679) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWY-0006UE-55 for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWS-00025o-9E for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWN-00024f-O7; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1335 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1acyWF-0000sU-DL; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:00:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:35:16 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114545 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Cc: rms@gnu.org, 21998@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:35:16 -0800 > > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > . Keep the current system, where ChangeLog is produced from Git log > > and mistakes made in Git log should be corrected manually after > > producing ChangeLog > > If you really do want to keep ChangeLogs around, I'd prefer this over the > third option. That's the system we tried for the past year, and it clearly failed. Why should we continue to invest good money after bad money? Is it really that hard to copy/paste an entry from the ChangeLog to Git log, or the other way around?