From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: auto-generating skeleton ChangeLogs (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?) 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X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:205540 Archived-At: On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:31 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: RS> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] RS> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] RS> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] >> You're right, of course. But I wasn't saying the program would do the >> entire job. It will know *what* has changed and provide a place to enter >> the *why* messages. Then the code reviewer will require those messages >> before approving the merge. That's essentially what ChangeLogs do, but >> this will be in a structured format so it's easier to index and analyze >> the data. RS> That sounds like an idea worth trying to implement. RS> If it works well, it could indeed be helpful. On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:29:38 +0100 phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) wrote: PL> I use magit to create the structure for change log from the diff, PL> interactively during the commit process. It's a little clunky, but it PL> works okay. That's what I do as well. It's very visual and I sometimes miss things. Can we do better? What are the things we can catch, given a patch or VCS commit and the VCS-controlled file? * additions of variables: defvar, defcustom, ??? * additions of functions: defun, defun*, ??? * removals of variables and functions * changes to defcustoms or defvars * changes to functions * other top-level macros such as `define-minor-mode' * new files, deleted files If there is code already written for this in Emacs or other packages, great. If not, I guess it should be part of the VC mode? Ted