From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best way to get hang of an elisp file? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:40:59 -0500 Message-ID: <87bo1ho338.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20131018185232.2084581e@aga-netbook> <87vbztohre.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384807293 22266 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2013 20:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:41:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 21:41:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ViVdZ-0000os-Cv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVdZ-0005or-1k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:41:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVdG-0005nq-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVd7-0000wu-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:41:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36030) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVd7-0000wV-E7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ViVd5-0000aB-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net ([74.101.84.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:41:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+vs9xKK2XodyaLZDyXRnVGaog0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94533 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > That can be fairly difficult, indeed. > > The way I do it, usually, is to look at all the commits by authors for > whom we don't have copyright papers yet. I group them by author. > > For all authors whose sum of commits is small enough to be considered > "trivial", we don't need paperwork, so I take them out. > > For all remaining authors, I look at all their commits and try to track > that code's subsequent life, to see if it has been removed/overwritten > and figure out where it can still be found in the latest version of > the code (in case it was moved, reindented, ...). > > In the case of BBDB, this is rather difficult because Jamie's code is > fairly large, so it's a lot of work to track his code through all of > Roland's changes to see what remains. > > So I think we'd need to use some other approach. E.g. Roland should be > able to give us some important indications like "all this file is only > mine", "all that file was completely rewritten". > > > Stefan Thank you for your time, Stefan. I have been trying to compare the two versions and this will help, as have Roland's comments---posts as of recent. I would like to volunteer my help on this, and if anyone else has guidance to offer, I'm all ears.