From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Gauland Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Abolishing ChangeLog files Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:09:10 +1300 Message-ID: <87d2ujnv6h.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> 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> <87a9pnhjya.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364501376 20550 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2013 20:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:09:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 28 21:10:04 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 1ULJ94-0001Wh-LY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:09:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41639 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULJ8g-00023f-BV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULJ8Z-0001x6-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULJ8W-0003IV-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULJ8W-0003IH-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ULJ8o-0000gs-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:09:43 +0100 Original-Received: from 114-134-7-65.rurallink.co.nz ([114.134.7.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:09:42 +0100 Original-Received: from aidalgol by 114-134-7-65.rurallink.co.nz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:09:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114-134-7-65.rurallink.co.nz User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7uJrnWJSvF/eInfdwmfcgc/kNlo= 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:158380 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Emacs ChangeLog files are not redundant with VC change records. > We put different information in them. At least, I do. > In the ChangeLog files I put lists of functions changed and how. > In the bzr log entry I explain the overall purpose of the change. I put both in the ChangeLog entry and then copy it to the commit log. I think the ChangeLog format (file list and overall summary) is great, and I think we should use it in the commit logs. (GNU Guile does this.) --Aidan