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: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:11:12 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a7yn7tqp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878te75xa1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ind6l2tt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877etklvsa.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3m0pv8u.fsf@gnu.org> <86608msw0h.fsf@dod.no> <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> <83r2r7arfq.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515010232 26925 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2018 20:10:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:10:32 +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 Wed Jan 03 21:10:28 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 1eWpMk-0006PN-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpOj-0004MY-89 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:12:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpOZ-0004L5-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpOW-0005kE-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:12:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42723 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpOW-0005jj-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:12:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpMR-0005Ld-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:10:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:j0Ye1xlI7LYSuH65Ta9R6pNk6AQ= 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:221559 Archived-At: > I very much doubt that such design-level information can be reasonably > well explained in commit log messages. In my experience, it is usually easy to write one's changelog such that it explains some of the motivation for the change. I often fail to do it right, but that's mostly out of bad habit rather than because it's hard. Stefan