From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes? Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:16:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87637of4y8.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87oclfdzs2.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262269320 27781 80.91.229.12 (31 Dec 2009 14:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, eliz@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 15:21:52 2009 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 4.50) id 1NQLuQ-0008Dc-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:21:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55783 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLuR-0004W8-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLpi-0002Uz-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLpd-0002ST-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60801 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NQLpc-0002SO-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:16:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com ([209.85.218.215]:35103) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQLpa-0007Wj-Oj; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so8869496bwz.26 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:16:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eCkBe4Wnp5Y7S/+WLYUVfmb0CZThNxRyrlDVSVPdErk=; b=eB7MGKBn9QIE97pjnNySzLc9qFdwq3mThgMUJMjz5qJac4yCyDXIA6D8nLXYsqc3Tt xXD07OexBuknSJFhQG29RCznTekikXvE6Dm01iXiEGX3pxSNZ5uw+yu+ZKcQDHCMATOL Ugf0uCyGtyvTguwxnxC4j26VgSO8gHmeaBGJM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ar7hnBnuEannM2jqHd28sGpBIe/fNxX5uUgs46sUvKEQUDsrPcsNH2rUeTZc5Bi59Y xy+Rf4ucD94iKGqeqmsKB8t7b8ee4/MzyJeeSM90Kqsh+k4S33UQolesaVBRDLJK/0t6 QkkSTDFMtgZHTgMxuzwyQsLxXeFJctpGp9vKs= Original-Received: by 10.204.175.83 with SMTP id w19mr2722176bkz.24.1262269009135; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:16:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:119156 Archived-At: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 15:07, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > A major problem with generating the ChangeLog from the commit messages > is that you cannot fix a incorrect entry. =C2=A0More often than not, you > need to do fixes (forgotten entries, incorrect formating, ...). I know, I've done quite a few changes to old ChangeLog entries :-) Still, that seems to me a lesser problem that having to check two places to get all relevant info. And, if you look deep at our ChangeLogs, after years and years of use I'm sure you wouldn't take more than half an hour to find some mistake (I'm not talking about typos, but missing, wrong or duplicate entries, etc.). At the end of the day, you look at the ChangeLog or the commit message to get an idea of what happened; if you need the full info, there's the diffs. Juanma