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: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:39:22 -0400 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> <838t6jgl1k.fsf@gnu.org> <601m6cc6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83o9fefnv9.fsf@gnu.org> <83d0vtfx4f.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9fce4np.fsf@gnu.org> <8336wneemw.fsf@gnu.org> <907edf27-ed0c-5166-88ea-c3db9d9d7f74@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531499858 22949 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 16:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:37:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 18:37:34 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 1fe14X-0005rK-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:37:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe16e-0007wh-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:39:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe16X-0007tt-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:39:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe16T-0002mn-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34110 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fe16T-0002mO-Ia for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fe14I-0005ZC-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:37:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MCSwaE2Q6gL+EDtiZYMjOcfoqxQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:227350 Archived-At: > Although the summary line is sometimes a nuisance to write, when done > well it is so useful that it's clearly a net win over our old way of > doing things. Agreed, they're very handy. Basically for the same reason that ChangeLog messages are handy (as a summary of the diff). Stefan