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: Reviewing changes Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87k5aydhsq.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87y6zggnmz.fsf@red-bean.com> <87d4grbcc0.fsf@red-bean.com> <877i6zmdlv.fsf@xemacs.org> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227163123 28911 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2008 06:38:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 07:39:44 2008 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 4.50) id 1L33CY-0007u4-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:39:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35246 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L33BP-0002jN-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L33AR-0002Ji-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L33AP-0002I4-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49815 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L33AP-0002Hv-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:29 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]:36160) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L33AO-0004UF-6c; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37450 helo=floss) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L33AM-0002eF-79; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:37:26 -0600 In-Reply-To: <877i6zmdlv.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:43:08 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:105848 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Karl Fogel writes: > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > > ChangeLog changes arriving separately is just a particular case of a > > > more general phenomenon: that each file's changes arrive separately, > > > even if they all belong to the same changeset. CVS simply doesn't > > > support anything else. > > "CVS simply", no, but "CVS complicatedly", yes. > > > I thought log-accum.pl was the answer to this, in CVS-land? > > I guess you would think that ;-), but apparently this is now a "lie": > > # (Ask Karl Fogel if questions.) > -- from CVSROOT/log_accum, l.29 Er, heh. Um. Many facts have passed through my brain over the last decade and a half; some of them left deeper traces than others :-). > Cracked me up. Anyway, I don't know offhand what XEmacs uses, looks > like it is log_accum. If Emacs decides to do something, ping me and > I'll investigate our configuration. I'm not sure how "Emacs" decides to do things, but I'm very much in favor of having our commits produce emails that are more useful, and it sounds like I'm not alone. Please investigate -- let's see if we can make it happen here! -Karl