From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating ChangeLog files. Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:49:34 +0900 Message-ID: <871u0otnht.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388807394 9276 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 03:49:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 03:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ruediger@c-plusplus.de, michael.albinus@gmx.de, bozhidar@batsov.com, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 04:49:59 2014 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 1VzIFK-0005yO-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:49:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIFK-0001AX-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIFD-00019Q-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:49:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIF8-0002Eu-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:49:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIF8-0002Eq-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fl1-119-240-87-91.iba.mesh.ad.jp ([119.240.87.91]:63982 helo=shatin) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIF7-0005XC-M4; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from handa by shatin with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VzIEx-000152-2t; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 12:49:35 +0900 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:13:03 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). 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:167250 Archived-At: In article , Stefan Monnier writes: > > ChangeLogs are easier to access and search, and they have better > > information (mistakes can be corrected). I rarely refer to the commit > > log, other than the one-liners of "bzr log --line" to quickly locate a > > recent commit, and these are less than helpful because many people > > does not really adds a summary. > I stand on the other side: the only reason I ever look at the ChangeLog > files is because "bzr log" is so damn slow. But even with this > slowness, I usually use "bzr log" (or rather vc-print-log), because > I can then easily get the corresponding diff. I, in general, prefer ChangeLog files, but one point I don't like it is that they are splitted into multiple directories. I'd like to see all related changes for a single commit as a single ChangeLog entry. Isn't it possible to have a single ChangeLog file in the top directory? --- Kenichi Handa handa@gnu.org