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, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:43 -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> <83in5lg4ol.fsf@gnu.org> <83efg9fxnj.fsf@gnu.org> <877em078mz.fsf@tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531411259 13719 195.159.176.226 (12 Jul 2018 16:00:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:00:59 +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 Thu Jul 12 18:00:55 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 1fde1X-0003Uv-D6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 18:00:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fde3e-0008FE-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fde1Z-0006tS-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fde1U-0007w0-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43836 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fde1U-0007uG-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fddzJ-00012B-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:58:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:C2UGuzU/hUL5zYctvM3Tgsrghgs= 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:227279 Archived-At: >> Maybe another take on it is to use a "hidden" ChangeLog file, saved >> somewhere in ~/.emacs.d, indexed by the project location and with some >> way to recover some earlier commit message you worked on and had >> to abandon? > Like a more persistent and/or VCS-agnostic "${GIT_DIR}/COMMIT_EDITMSG"? I think so, yes (and one which allows several messages to be kept). Stefan