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: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:19:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <21606.10799.112099.788101@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <1753218.Ot8JCqssfN@descartes> <546AABCF.8030705@cs.ucla.edu> <9xioico2nm.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zjbntvfz.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87k32rta32.fsf@engster.org> <87a93mu7mo.fsf@engster.org> <83egsw50rr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tx1ssezx.fsf@engster.org> <83h9xstrqx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416590414 27057 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 17:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bzg@gnu.org, David Engster , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 18:20:06 2014 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 1XrrsL-0007AW-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:20:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41779 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrrsL-0001pc-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrrsB-0001pQ-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrrs3-0000Pf-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:38220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xrrs3-0000PL-GA; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sALHJjHL010321; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:19:46 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CAF4943B8; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:19:40 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83h9xstrqx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:58:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5132=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5132> : inlines <1553> : streams <1346307> : uri <1835581> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:177956 Archived-At: > It's not intended for that. The 'annotate' commands are for that. No, same difference. In many cases, a change is installed without explaining why. On this point I definitely agree with David. I don't think it' due to the ChangeLog format per-se, but it's indeed easy to write a ChangeLog comment which just paraphrases the diff without really providing the explanation for the change. Stefan