From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:42:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87twkfo2tp.fsf@linux-m68k.org> References: <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov5rmt6.fsf@gnu.org> <56DFD78F.40205@cs.ucla.edu> <56E06093.7050509@cs.ucla.edu> <83twkfo7ij.fsf@gnu.org> <20160309181005.GF3948@acm.fritz.box> <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457552594 25697 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 19:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:43:09 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 1adk0g-0007uH-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:43:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43749 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adk0f-0006Me-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adk0R-0006ML-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adk0Q-000522-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1]:44488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adk0M-00051l-HF; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:42:46 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qL3j04B5Qz3hjnB; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:42:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qL3j00stlzvh1m; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:42:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id phqXghd4nAPE; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:42:43 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: wUTUKmNo+MgEkGFyYBpksly28q8Nng3zcV5AHK7nb1tD7VO+IrKXAK6ut6Nkw4hJ Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-13-150.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.13.150]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:42:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B48A62C39E1; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:42:42 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: My DIGITAL WATCH has an automatic SNOOZE FEATURE!! In-Reply-To: <20160309193454.GG3948@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:34:54 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 2001:a60:0:28:0:1:25:1 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:201306 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hello, Stefan. > > On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:09:53PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > Maybe we should move to a version control system which permits commit >> > messages to be amended. (Only half joking.) > >> These seem to be in rather short supply, sadly. Any suggestion? > > Mercurial. It has the hg histedit command. Git. It has the git rebase command. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."