From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Abolishing ChangeLog files Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:55:57 +0100 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87a9pnhjya.fsf@gmail.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364468265 30565 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2013 10:57:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:57:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 28 11:58:09 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 1ULAWv-0006bw-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:58:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULAWX-0002Nd-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULAWR-0002NT-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULAWQ-0007vw-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULAWQ-0007vp-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ULAWi-0005wq-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net ([78.243.104.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:57:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DW5cpAggFNE6lScE3vEVJsVILQA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:158348 Archived-At: Christopher Schmidt writes: > David Engster writes: >> The most time consuming thing is fixing ChangeLogs (we don't have any >> in CEDET and generate them from commit logs). > > I would like to suggest another change - how about removing ChangeLog > files from the development repository. I think these files are > redundant to the commit log of the vc. > > Removing the files from the repository would clean diffs and reduce > merge conflicts. Considering distributed vc, a project's history cannot > be thought of as to be list of consecutive increments. > > Distributions of Emacs could include ChangeLog files generated from the > vc commit log, of course. > > Do I make sense? YES!!! > Are there any drawbacks? > > Christopher > > -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997