From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:25:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <838tdiet25.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3li4vh7.fsf@telefonica.net> <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <83608kck4c.fsf@gnu.org> <544c170f-99bd-c701-3063-c697296a30a6@cs.ucla.edu> <83po6rar9c.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9mabwks.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv1ubrlu.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgheb8n8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515075896 17712 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2018 14:24:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:24:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 04 15:24:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eX6Rr-0003uT-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:24:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX6To-0004hM-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX6Sb-0004fV-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:25:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX6Sa-0003kz-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from pmta31.teksavvy.com ([76.10.157.38]:11264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eX6SV-0003el-0k; Thu, 04 Jan 2018 09:25:27 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F1EADUOE5a/xCds2tdHQEBBQELAYM+g?= =?us-ascii?q?VqJSYYHjhQBggAzAZkLCoU1BAIChC9EFAEBAQEBAQEBAQNoKIUlAQQBViMFCws?= =?us-ascii?q?0EhQYDSSKOQi0OIo9AQEIAiaEE4h/ixoFkzeQH6FGh3qXEIE8NiOBTzIaCDCCa?= =?us-ascii?q?IR0I4lEAQEB?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2F1EADUOE5a/xCds2tdHQEBBQELAYM+gVqJSYYHjhQBggA?= =?us-ascii?q?zAZkLCoU1BAIChC9EFAEBAQEBAQEBAQNoKIUlAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSKOQi0O?= =?us-ascii?q?Io9AQEIAiaEE4h/ixoFkzeQH6FGh3qXEIE8NiOBTzIaCDCCaIR0I4lEAQEB?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,507,1508817600"; d="scan'208";a="16762486" Original-Received: from 107-179-157-16.cpe.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([107.179.157.16]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 04 Jan 2018 09:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5C48766367; Thu, 4 Jan 2018 09:25:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2018 08:39:48 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 76.10.157.38 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:221593 Archived-At: > Then you have back the problem with branches, since the changes > in the region will not tell you whether the change was merged or > backported etc. As explained, this is the part of the info that vc-region-history can't give me, and the reason why I instead have to look at the actual code of a few releases (usually just one, but potentially more). > Anyway, I don't really understand the point you are trying to make. > If you are saying that ChangeLogs are _never_ useful in these > situations, then that's a strangely extremist view, and my experience > is very far from that. I'm just pointing out that not only we *can* live without the ChangeLog files, but that's exactly what I happen to do. Stefan