From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bmj6dda0.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <87vahe911g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87374id7jy.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <877ett8g7k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> <86608msw0h.fsf@dod.no> <838tdiet25.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3li4vh7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <7c7503b4-1f82-8a25-fedd-c61c3e7629f6@cs.ucla.edu> <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515553380 19436 195.159.176.226 (10 Jan 2018 03:03:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, sb@dod.no, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 04:02:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fC-0004Sx-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 04:02:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6hC-00042a-Ab for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:04:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6gI-00040q-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6gH-00015l-49 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fk-0000dT-C9; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZ6fj-0006QG-Ss; Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:03:23 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:27:10 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:221772 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 didn't think that particular change required any description or explanation. Description and explanation are two different issues. Please don't treat them as the same -- if you do that, we are miscommunicating. Under our current practices, this change required a description in the history. It did not need a written explanation anywhere. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.