From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lib/ should have its own ChangeLog Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2hmxm432zn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <4D538491.5040402@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297321514 1504 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2011 07:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:05:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 08:05:08 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PnQaQ-0001A7-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:05:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43623 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnQaT-00085t-Ky for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59437 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnQaN-00085n-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:05:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnQaH-00088G-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47045) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnQaH-00088C-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnQaH-0000wS-Jt; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:04:57 -0500 In-reply-to: <4D538491.5040402@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:24:17 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:135830 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:24:17 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 02/09/2011 08:52 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > > I'm not sure the very detailed > > ChangeLog entries imported from gnulib (eg 2011-01-30, which is 50% of > > the length of the whole nextstep/ChangeLog) are of much relevance to > > Emacs > > It would save me time to use shorter ChangeLog entries, and I could > easily be persuaded to replace long entries like that with "update > from master", regardless of which directory we decide to put the > ChangeLogs in. In general, since we are using a changeset-oriented VCS, the detailed descriptions of the changeset are supposed to be part of the commit log messages. ChangeLog entries can just state what was changed; there should be no need to repeat in the ChangeLog what is described in the commit log message.