Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > from Git history.  One example is establishing whether some change was
>> > in Emacs XX.YY or in a later version.
>> FWIW, I generally do that by comparing the change to the actual code of
>> Emacs-XX.YY.
> How do you do that when XX.YY is not known in advance?  Check every
> version of Emacs from the last one back?  That's not really efficient.

I'm not saying it's the best way, just that it's the way I've done it so
far (I guess I could have used the ChangeLog, but it's just not part of
the things that cross my mind).  I haven't needed it very often and
usually I can guess from the change date what version it likely belongs
to, so I can't remember having had to look at more than 1 version (and
since I have Emacs versions 19.34, 20.7, 21.4, 22.3, 23.4, 24.5, and
25.2 readily installed on my machine, it's very easy to check for those
versions).


        Stefan