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: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:03:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87efnan46u.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <86wp12qtgo.fsf@dod.no> <83tvw6chqv.fsf@gnu.org> <86shbprix7.fsf_-_@dod.no> <838t6jgl1k.fsf@gnu.org> <601m6cc6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83o9fefnv9.fsf@gnu.org> <83in5lg4ol.fsf@gnu.org> <83efg9fxnj.fsf@gnu.org> <877em078mz.fsf@tcd.ie> <87muuwo0wh.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531414948 8832 195.159.176.226 (12 Jul 2018 17:02:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:02:28 +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 Thu Jul 12 19:02:24 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 1fdeyy-00029W-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:02:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdf15-0005Fa-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdf0i-00054K-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdf0c-0001QV-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56860 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdf0c-0001Nz-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fdeyR-0001TK-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:01:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:N51x3x42rtjAyDDp5gz5vyV6j1U= 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:227291 Archived-At: > I just put messages in ChangeLog with C-x 4 a , vc-dir automatically > pulls those into the commit message, and then any subsequent amending > I do via magit's commit interface. I do the same, but if you think about it, this intermediate step of putting things in a new file with a funny name (and which you then need to tell your VCS to ignore) is rather quaint. It only seems "natural" if you've used ChangeLog files before. We need a similarly convenient solution for the post-ChangeLog world. Stefan