From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:09:06 -0500 Message-ID: <87tyv5y4d9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87hbr6jwsy.fsf@telefonica.net> <83my0yfc9g.fsf@gnu.org> <838wchgais.fsf@gnu.org> <878wchfxcn.fsf@red-bean.com> <833a2pfvl2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262381373 3021 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2010 21:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 01 22:29:26 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 4.50) id 1NQp3l-00020V-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:29:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58258 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQp3m-00023u-1u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQp2r-0001IV-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:28:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQp2m-0001Gh-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:28:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56439 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQp2m-0001Ge-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:28:24 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po39.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.100]:36285) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQp2k-0006pw-9h; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:28:22 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (162.254.218.209.transedge.com [209.218.254.162]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po39.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o01LSJOa016159 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:28:21 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 44764C071; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:09:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <833a2pfvl2.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:56:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:119232 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> If you tweak a commit message on the savannah branch, bzr has no >> mechanism for conveying that tweak to the other branches > > Well, that's just it: bzr _should_ have such a mechanism. I really > don't care if modifying a commit message would count as a new revision > of the tree, all I care is that "bzr log" and friends show the > modified commit message by default (if there would be a way to see the > original one before the fix, that's okay too). I think the problem is that this involves tracking changes to changes. What if you want to change the change to the change?