From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unuseful commit message Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83wrkoqyai.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298655777 8577 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 17:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 18:42:52 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 1Pt1gp-0006hc-HE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:42:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pt1gp-0000xF-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41797 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pt1gf-0000ws-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt1ga-0007bk-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:32768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt1ga-0007bg-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40647) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt1gZ-0007jB-J3; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:42:35 -0500 X-Spook: ISEC constitution [Hello to all my friends and fans in X-Ran: y2NS]/E]V~R*&}v&{`H8#ZUz?`/q^mCG,jI4dW"QZ!!Jp (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:05:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 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:136522 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > One needs to use "bzr log --verbose" or "bzr diff" to see which files > were regenerated. It would also be good to have the reason(s) for > regeneration in the log message (or at least in ChangeLog). wrt ChangeLogs, rms said "There is no need to indicate regeneration of files such as configure in ChangeLog." This is documented in admin/notes/changelogs. (FWIW, personally I agree with him.)