From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log* Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <20160306220502.GA23154@thyrsus.com> <8760wx442f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87si00srmo.fsf_-_@gmx.net> <40522b1b-fc32-1a6c-9e69-e1df628d85a0@yandex.ru> <87oaaosh51.fsf@gmx.net> <1c5d8058-d7ed-1e2f-f83d-a3241ec7040c@yandex.ru> <878u1rih47.fsf@gmx.net> <83bn6no20q.fsf@gnu.org> <8760wvz26r.fsf@gmx.net> <83twken8zz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457615633 16969 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 13:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Berman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 14:13:44 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ae0PI-0006fy-Tg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:13:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae0PI-0007Fe-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51328) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae0PE-0007F0-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae0PD-0004D8-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:17014) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ae0P8-00049Y-1G; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:26 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0A+FgA731xV/0a6+M5cgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPD0QAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEIAQEBAR6KOIEChQUHhC0FjDCnD4FFI4FmgjAggngBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0A+FgA731xV/0a6+M5cgxCEAoVVwwsEAgKBPD0QAQEBAQEBAYEKQQWDXQEBAwFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIg3CM8jAQEIAQEBAR6KOIEChQUHhC0FjDCnD4FFI4FmgjAggngBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="195851453" Original-Received: from 206-248-186-70.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.186.70]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2016 08:13:25 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2E6306032C; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:13:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83twken8zz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:26:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201379 Archived-At: > and creating a top-level ChangeLog file is not necessarily TRT for all > those other projects. Creating a ChangeLog right along side the changed file is not necessarily TRT either. IOW what we've done in the past was just a heuristic where the really wasn't many other choices, but if you consider the "VC root" information that's available nowadays it's actually a very valid fallback option as well. >From where I stand "/ChangeLog" is a better fallback option than "/ChangeLog", but in any case either choice is just a "best guess" and will not always be right (which is why we only make this choice when there's no pre-existing ChangeLog file). Stefan