From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: add-change-log-entry does not find the ChangeLog file: change-log-directory-files Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:46:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87va7qly9e.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535705843 12677 195.159.176.226 (31 Aug 2018 08:57:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:57:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 31 10:57:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fvfF0-00038k-VE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvfH7-00074Y-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvf4O-0001dI-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvf4L-0002JT-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=32905 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvf4K-0002HR-Qv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fvf2A-0003Bl-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:44:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:TcRZnYwp4WfAU7dWu+YTfnS6qe0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117801 Archived-At: Hi I tried to set ,---- | change-log-directory-files is a variable defined in ‘add-log.el’. | Its value is (".bzr" ".git" "../.hg" ".hg" ".svn") | Original value was | (".bzr" ".git" ".hg" ".svn") `---- My problem is, if I am in a subdirectory of my mercurial (or git) repository and run add-change-log-entry, does not open the ChangeLog file in the «root» directory but tries to open the one in the current subdirectory, which I don't want. Any ideas how to deal with this situation? Thanks Uwe Brauer