From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12946: 23.2; log-edit-insert-changelog not inserting a description line from ChangeLog file Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:53:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353437649 10406 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2012 18:54:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12946@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 19:54:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tasxb-0002mj-Nz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:54:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasxR-0008Rg-H9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34373) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasxJ-0008QD-Ud for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:54:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasxE-0004ld-6Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:53:57 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasxE-0004lZ-2j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:53:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TasyM-0000SD-6H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:55:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. 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Szmidt wrote: > 2012-11-16 Alfred M. Szmidt > > This is a deccription line. > > * random-file: New file. If you don't use a blank line between the two, you get This is a description line. * random-file: New file. in the log buffer, which seems fine to me. You can easily kill all but the first line if you don't want it. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Style-of-Change-Logs.html#Style-of-Change-Logs says not to put blank lines between related entries (essentially, IMO). (Maybe it should be updated for the practise of adding a leading summary.) Interesting; this might make me change how I do things. I've always done one ChangeLog entry per related entry. Though, I think it would be useful if there was some variable at least, that would only put in the description line. > * random-file: New file. > > What would be useful is that you got the description line > inserted instead, with nothing following it. This is common > practise when working with various distributed version control > systems where the commit entry only contains a brief description > of the change, and the ChangeLog contains the detailed > information. Really? I got the impression the trend was to generate ChangeLogs from commit logs. Well, there are two camps, those who keep ChangeLog entries in commit message, and those who don't. Those who don't put a short summary in the commit message. At least from my limited observations. E.g. in Emacs it tends to be short summaries in the commit message.