From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:15:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <83twkiteb3.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5utbxb.fsf@gnu.org> <56DDD02A.20809@cs.ucla.edu> <83fuw2t2ue.fsf@gnu.org> <56DE0F6A.6010207@cs.ucla.edu> <87y49tdq33.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457450189 5079 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 15:16:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 15:16:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 16:16:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMv-00025t-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:16:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMu-0008S9-OQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMZ-0008OP-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMW-0003DJ-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:15:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMW-0003Cz-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adJMR-0001kM-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:15:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com ([157.52.15.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:15:47 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:15:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hn0sFZhF1Bs1N+HM6EBIpVUrr14= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201147 Archived-At: >> I'd rather just do what coreutils, grep, tar, etc. use. It's just as > I like what is done by those projects. However they don't have a merge > workflow. I agree with you that for Emacs release branches, maintaining > ChangeLog manually seems reasonable. However how will it work for the > feature branches which are meant to be merge sooner or later? The ChangeLog would only be generated into tarballs (i.e. only when leaving the realm of the VCS), so they just never appear on any branch. Stefan