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: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:13:13 -0500 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> <7c7503b4-1f82-8a25-fedd-c61c3e7629f6@cs.ucla.edu> <83zi5o6w4p.fsf@gnu.org> <745d2f02-8ca3-8962-0de4-053340c8fa63@cs.ucla.edu> <83efmx6862.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp0n32se.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515820413 32197 195.159.176.226 (13 Jan 2018 05:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 05:13:33 +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 Sat Jan 13 06:13:28 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 1eaE86-0007KX-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:13:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38945 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaEA4-0004vl-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:15:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaE8X-0004u8-0E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaE8T-0000NJ-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:13:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54066 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaE8T-0000L2-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:13:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaE6I-0008Sm-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:11:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDkyffZZIlzgwLTMUkCi6mKVs9E= 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:221911 Archived-At: > We're not talking about removing the existing ChangeLog files. Indeed. > We're talking about what should be put into commit messages from here > on out. That is an ongoing and nontrivial maintenance effort, and if > we can ease the burden of writing commit messages then that will be > a win. I'm not particularly concerned about "easing the burden", but rather about improving the quality: when the commit message just paraphrases the diff, the commit message is not very useful and would benefit from being rephrased so as to give more information about the intention/motivation behind the change (information not readily available from the diff). Stefan