From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83oaaquvif.fsf@gnu.org> <83egbkrfez.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457541564 27033 80.91.229.3 (9 Mar 2016 16:39:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:39:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 17:39:12 2016 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 1adh8d-0002iZ-Gm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh8c-0004iN-RY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:39:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh8Z-0004iD-0Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh8Y-0006kZ-2r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh8X-0006kV-W4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adh8X-0001vT-Rq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:39:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:39:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21998 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21998-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21998.14575415137364 (code B ref 21998); Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:39:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21998) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Mar 2016 16:38:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41728 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adh85-0001ui-D4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55382) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adh84-0001uS-8X for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh7y-0006J0-CS for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:27 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adh7y-0006Iq-95 for 21998@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adh7w-0006KN-Ti; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 11:38:25 -0500 In-reply-to: <83egbkrfez.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:30:12 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114649 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I agree, but you seem to assume that ChangeLog files are kept in the > repository. If they were, there wouldn't be a problem. They aren't; > they are generated from Git log. I am trying to understand the situation from what I read in some of these messages. If the ChangeLog files are only generated from the Git log mssages, which cannot be corrected, then how does fixing ChangeLog entries work? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.