From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLogs on CVS? Commit netiquette. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: <87eiki443f.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <5f0ff9221002181207v3244055ax3b3223833a901609@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266529113 8590 80.91.229.12 (18 Feb 2010 21:38:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , Juanma Barranquero , ams@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 18 22:38:29 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 1NiE4q-0008V3-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:38:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56046 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiE4q-0006ye-9J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiE4l-0006xf-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50300 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiE4k-0006x0-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiE4i-0006cR-OI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:22 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:57765) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiE4i-0006c1-J5; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38523 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NiE4b-0000UU-PM; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:38:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: <5f0ff9221002181207v3244055ax3b3223833a901609@mail.gmail.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:07:01 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:121200 Archived-At: "T.V. Raman" writes: >My cvs snapshot of emacs has Changelog files only upto the end of >2009 --- has the repository moved, or are there just no >changelogs any more? Hi, T.V.! Emacs switched to Bazaar. Please see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs and ask any questions here, of course. Best, -Karl =20=20 >On 2/18/10, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>> This seems more of a short comming in `bzr log --short' than in the >>>> way one writes commit messages. >> >> Not really: it's the whole idea behing "bzr log --short". >> >>> We currently *have* policies about ChangeLog entries and commit logs, >>> so I agree with =C3=93scar: it is a good practice and we should require >>> people to follow it; and treat people who doesn't the same way we >>> treat people who mangles ChangeLog entries (that is, a gentle but firm >>> reminder that we have guideliness and we're all expected to follow >>> them). >> >> Yes, please, we should require the first line of commit messages to be >> an acceptable summary of the whole changeset. >> >> Could someone update log-edit-mode's font-lock patterns so that the >> first line is highlighted specially (at least in the Bzr and Arch >> cases)? >> >> I think log-edit-mode should even go further in this direction. >> The buffer should be created as >> >> ---------------- >> Author: >> Summary: >> >> blablabla >> ---------------- >> >> where is the text taken from the ChangeLog. Then for >> backends which support the notion of summary-line, C-c C-c could just >> signal an error if the Summary line is still blank. >> After that, empty header entries will get removed and the text is passed >> as-is to the backend who is then free to pass it as-is to the underlying >> VCS or to extract the various fields and do whatever it feels like >> with them. >> >> >> Stefan >> >> >>