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: Abolishing ChangeLog files Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:34:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqsrwkim.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y5d9p5td.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> <87vc8dtbcb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871ub1gmdf.fsf@engster.org> <87d2ulovd0.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> <85r4j0h1ww.fsf@member.fsf.org> <85li98h1qx.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87ehf0b3x2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87obe3gaem.fsf@engster.org> <87ip4bj1ay.fsf_-_@earth.home> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364488472 15333 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2013 16:34:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:34:32 +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 Mar 28 17:34:55 2013 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 1ULFmx-0005eb-2J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:34:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULFmY-00007X-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:34:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULFmU-00006y-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:34:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULFmS-0007wB-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:42749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULFmS-0007vz-Nc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MKD00400PUISN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:34:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MKD004XWQ1ALL40@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:34:22 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:158366 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:41:25 -0400 > > > Because bzr log take ages to popup, I guess it is one reason you relay > > on changelog files. > > Agreed. Commit logs are much more useful in Git where they show up much > more quickly. Not here: D:\gnu\bzr\emacs\trunk>timep bzr log --line -l5000 > nul real 00h00m00.921s user 00h00m00.875s sys 00h00m00.062s $ time git log --oneline -n5000 > /dev/null real 0m0.218s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.015s I hope you at least won't claim that 900 msec is "much more quickly" than 200 msec. (Not that anyone should ever need to look at 5000 revisions.)