From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20071230142812.C8027CF80B9@golux.thyrsus.com> <85wsqww8ie.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199378907 21613 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 16:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 17:48:46 2008 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 1JATFO-0000AE-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JATF2-0006e5-2A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JATEx-0006bK-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JATEw-0006Zy-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:48:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JATEw-0006Zg-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:48:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JATEs-0005VV-8U; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:48:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7824225F6E; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 17:48:10 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: If I pull this SWITCH I'll be RITA HAYWORTH!! Or a SCIENTOLOGIST! In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Thu\, 03 Jan 2008 17\:25\:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:86000 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > Currently our ChangeLogs contain information about the contributor > which is not necessarily identical to the committer. Would a recent > VCS hold this information in a form that an automatically regenerated > ChangeLog contains it too? Git distinguishes between the author and the committer. (But I don't think it can directly deal with multiple authors.) Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."