From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:29:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87oa645s65.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83eg76n5h5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y45eeoor.fsf@lifelogs.com> <577D42BB.1020500@cs.ucla.edu> <87oa694rfw.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837fcxlbay.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1d2wg5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg75jk5h.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1cb6p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468236693 11644 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2016 11:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 11 13:31:23 2016 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 1bMZQo-00089d-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:31:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32833 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMZQn-0007ia-Cm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:31:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMZPx-0007hT-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMZPv-00036V-Aq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:34384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMZPp-0002x4-Bb; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:30:21 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=ic5cqSlo2SGIW/opBxaVC8k3yxD7dhLrz1H9DRX1Jsk=; b=gYopLXmplAJB8bppEpDbk0o8ii cVzA3uay+7pDjjW2q1PiVGaMudWPirI3wwEnZJOt2DuQwBM/fgT4+UoGwxV+VqTk2J6GTdSW7Axul ayTbuFn0TkMBpD6nARS2v4MQbscmFt9aUcPl8rigG2CVJiBBgJEWmknx3GcLrpqFL6wrjBrAhatPD gXv5sJLssQuZgD2IwnoFpHZ03hZnnBzbUnG2aEmR3N+cCEHgS+cBCr5r4zWa3Bp0W/flDbDINKHoG vLANrTAOsSY8JDcnbSH6szel/HrFxzTNcF5Uok3xLpPLA9Q049YPZsRfCSQaJ2G77qjTrvuwEvxjy 6c8Ta0IQ==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-60.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.60]:33169 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1bMZP9-001hO3-Gz; Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:29:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:54:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205538 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > This can easily be encoded in a database table so it's searchable, > > indexed by symbol name or file name (to build a history), etc. as part > > of the pull request system. It can be semi-automatic: the system figures > > out the file and symbol changes, then the developer adds the rest (and > > the review doesn't end until this is done). > > Given a program that can determine which function or entity name > to associate with each line, it would not be hard to make a list of > which entities are changed in a given patch. > > Do we have such a program? I don't know that we do. I use magit to create the structure for change log from the diff, interactively during the commit process. It's a little clunky, but it works okay. Phil