From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: File names in ChangeLog entries Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14878"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 00:17:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msCNj-0003fK-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:17:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50086 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msCNh-0002ZS-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msCMe-0001sv-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:17581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msCMb-0002Mw-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 2F6C3100164; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CF7B010000D; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:36 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1638314196; bh=oKAdrXIqOrQsY5lwsAhtgVEIR5EqMBiX0TBhF2xdC7k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=oWQEHP/XW6MKH43In5xoZ8fBm2J5JnPP66xY9ByjPC06z6WP6L+L8+xuzuL+hmGT+ k4zt4rC/z7EX9Z+AIPWvuAmZDLVVQ54ZNihjFFyz7qB+O3xpido7Nl4fiRmJWEyrgD 7pSmFDWdlwfBFQUKcLz3qCi47nLD7IKINUQknZlxA7sCJ/cGrVcRXogH1LEDIM/PAw prxN9ouv+9dSqV6DEgJc2qggqGhK+QMWjITN9s4MR1FIqsh4c5WY9ORWkzjpjB7Loj 2bCO/PTolVvG9FWh342NTnImT8H7Lfmyu8pVlmyzeb2nLGJGa8Lzm9AMePxfTiydyN VBAdYsYWjgDxQ== Original-Received: from alfajor (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B281C120680; Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:16:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:19:55 -0800") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280564 Archived-At: > I've had to spend quite some time fixing up ChangeLog entries in > preparation of the Emacs 28 pretest, and as you can imagine this work is > both manual and time consuming. FWIW, I can't remember the last time I looked at a ChangeLog file. OTOH, I would really appreciate if people could be careful to always include some kind of file information on the first line of their commit. Too often I see commits whose first line doesn't unambiguously indicate which part of Emacs's code is changed. Stefan