From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging multitty Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2wmz0iriyj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fy65k6eh.fsf@red-bean.com> <853b25lk43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86bqgr3g1h.fsf_-_@lola.quinscape.zz> <87k5vdse1d.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <17990.33223.288460.294949@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87ejlls8rl.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <464841DC.7040801@lorentey.hu> <4649F799.3050108@lorentey.hu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179279857 19524 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2007 01:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Karoly Lorentey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 03:44:16 2007 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 1Ho8Yp-0004xP-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 03:44:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho8gl-0000fk-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho8fd-00083s-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho8fc-00081r-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:51:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho8fb-00081h-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:51:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ho8Xf-0007EC-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ho8Uf-0001Sf-2S; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:39:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <4649F799.3050108@lorentey.hu> (message from Karoly Lorentey on Tue, 15 May 2007 20:10:33 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:71133 Archived-At: > If a function is new in the multi-tty branch, the only change log it > needs now is "new function". If you added on date A, and changed it > on date B, the entry for date B can usually be deleted. >=20 > I am not sure a program could make these simplifications. Do you mean that we can simplify ChangeLog as well, or do you want this shortening to only apply to the CVS logs? This simplification can be done in ChangeLog too. So I guess we could use a program to split it up file by file, and run that program on the hand-simplified ChangeLog file.