From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog? Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:35:16 +0900 Message-ID: References: <61k6osjqsz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109899968 18475 80.91.229.2 (4 Mar 2005 01:32:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 02:32:47 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D71fP-0003DP-OH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 02:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D71yT-0005OQ-VG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D71yD-0005NB-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D71yC-0005Mw-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D71yB-0005Mf-U1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.193] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D71iq-0005il-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so473300wri for ; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:35:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Vgg4dmVW/MUMM/lznXGylp/NjwxQd5siRtPUlJS1cMyu8pHPJYzprKLoQ4CWmEwJ6ThU1Usx3bY7SUEvf7oDCQ6xwNHMjL7xP2m3OIHMJcTmWvqL7cnZ1CxM2f54HzVtzZgpg1gyWD07qF6DdBQqMfW+v/wYlj3kTdNPvrP+CbM= Original-Received: by 10.54.59.37 with SMTP id h37mr60560wra; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:35:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:35:16 -0800 (PST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34161 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34161 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:41:39 +0000 (UTC), Robert J. Chassell wrote: > I gather the documentation contradicts this position. > > No, it doesn't. That was a misunderstanding. > > In Emacs, the approach we use is that all changes are listed in > ChangeLog. > > Which ChangeLog? The Emacs CVS offers two ChangeLogs and in > (emacs)Types of Log File The term "ChangeLog" -- note the specific capitalization -- as generally used, has a fairly specific meaning: it only refers to Emacs-style ChangeLog files, not to the concept of a change log in general. In my experience in the free-software world, even the specific Emacs capitalization is not necessary: any place the term "changelog" occurs as one word, it tends to refer to an Emacs-style ChangeLog file. The manual text you quote refers to "log", not "ChangeLog", when it's talking about CVS-style logs. > My hunch is that the current documentation is different than you > thought and that the changed documentation says what you mean. No, I've read the info file now, and it seems pretty explicit and clear about the distinction between the two types of logs. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.