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: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:16:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuw090k7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83y49spuxt.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov4achc.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83r3fkpb3u.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh5rps0t.fsf@gnu.org> <56E066BD.5050403@cs.ucla.edu> <83wpp9jt82.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov1dje9.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <83pouyfk6k.fsf@gnu.org> <9174d641-9f3f-6c03-2383-a4d5b7ac4f10@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457889439 5478 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2016 17:17:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:17:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 18:17:11 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 1af9dd-0004SL-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:17:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af9dd-0000pJ-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af9dO-0000oM-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af9dK-00038f-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34039) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1af9dK-000386-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1af9dI-0004GS-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:16:48 +0100 Original-Received: from 75-119-255-146.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.255.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:16:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-255-146.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:16:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-255-146.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eeYxksXLpRhDdhjMHIOS6+yoHvU= 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:201610 Archived-At: > We use the former for backporting changes from master. As for the I know we use cherry-picking, but I still think it's secondary to make sure the "git log fixes" are propagated correctly in those cases. I'm not opposed to it. I just think it's of much lesser importance than everything else we've considered in this thread. > If a person can rebase, they can fix the commit message while doing > that. There's no point is supporting an alternative mechanism there. Exactly. Stefan