From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr send workflow Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:11:59 -0400 Message-ID: <87bp8ps3hc.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87occvzosg.fsf@bnikolic.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282842742 2942 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2010 17:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , Bojan Nikolic , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 19:12:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oofzr-0001di-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oofzr-0003p9-2V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37478 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oofzh-0003ka-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oofzg-0003NC-0g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.79]:53827) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oofzf-0003N1-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:12:03 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po45.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o7QHBxv9022138 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 958B2C017; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:11:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:18:34 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129264 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 17:03, Andy Wingo wrote: > >> =C2=A0* Stop writing changelogs, and generate changelogs via a >> =C2=A0 dist-hook. Guile does this now, using gitlog-to-changelog from >> =C2=A0 gnulib. > > At this moment, the quality of our ChangeLog entries is quite superior > to the quality of commit log messages, so that'd be a net loss. > > I'm no big fan of keeping ChangeLogs *and* detailed commit logs, but > I'm even less fan of non-modifiable commit logs. Anyway, this should be a non-issue for Emacs users. Just write a ChangeLog in the usual way; then, before committing, do C-c C-a to pull it into the *VC-log* buffer and edit as necessary.