From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Absentee log entry and Git question Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 12:52:28 +0300 Message-ID: <861q6b71nn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87edab30yq.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87edab30yq.fsf@yahoo.com> <871q6b2yru.fsf@yahoo.com> <87ikzn4d6q.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87ttj71jjr.fsf@yahoo.com> <864jb7722i.fsf@gnu.org> <87msoz9uzz.fsf@aarsen.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, schwab@linux-m68k.org, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arsen =?utf-8?Q?Arsenovi=C4=87?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 11:53:19 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1s50Sl-0009Dd-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 11:53:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s50S6-0000VH-LX; Thu, 09 May 2024 05:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s50S3-0000V1-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2024 05:52:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1s50S0-0001Gx-W7; Thu, 09 May 2024 05:52:33 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=vJc+6gmzFVmUHup+vUxxKRkQwocvFwxgQWbNM7gLf8w=; b=mBXyYj4N5uHVuRnl37hT x8Giake1mk1wElr7wjdHm5H/ycqQF0KmNZI9CJbRp4R2oHq/dTjzZK0kqvG8gAAU31uehXMKW12zm 6/Lc7iKhUpxoDnrjzzqBpDZchB7WTaRt7esy3xpuicgQy5++ubJQ8++yvZ9P/212rCZYz1vTYMrpH btBadukl5FOOJkRwr369HR+kYlA3hJWzptzrajfUvAVJUuG3YhwN7bMgakG/FaM/nFIp1eUnXDyNI F55Yvr+Rs9BLWkL/itve7/1l6Di2sSNNYEGzA3jQx5oeuRuCmVjqRXWSbSQg4BLuvoHpmlWVu/bRV 66NUXuaKBfApOA==; In-Reply-To: <87msoz9uzz.fsf@aarsen.me> (message from Arsen =?utf-8?Q?Arse?= =?utf-8?Q?novi=C4=87?= on Thu, 09 May 2024 11:48:00 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:319061 Archived-At: > From: Arsen Arsenović > Cc: Po Lu , schwab@linux-m68k.org, > gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 11:48:00 +0200 > > > The VC log is carved in stone with Git, so it cannot be corrected. > > > > We _can_ correct that in the generated ChangeLog file, though. To > > this end, one needs to generate ChangeLog.4, then edit it, and then > > commit the fixed version. This can be done now, or it can be deferred > > until the first pretest tarball is made for the next version. > > Could an empty commit with just the missing ChangeLog hunk work? It can > be created using: > > git commit --allow-empty It won't help, so no. > BTW, it might make sense to reuse/reimplement some of the git > infrastructure GCC uses to prevent pushes without matching ChangeLogs. We already have such hooks, but that commit was more than 6 months ago.