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 16:43:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <83po6e17o4.fsf@gnu.org> <83d12d1s38.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515879724 29948 195.159.176.226 (13 Jan 2018 21:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:42:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 22:42:00 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 1eaTYo-00071U-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:41:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTan-0001WZ-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40142) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTa5-0001Vm-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTa2-0005Q1-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:47854) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTa2-0005PJ-3W; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w0DLh7GU016348; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 659596080A; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:43:06 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83d12d1s38.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:22:51 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6199=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6199> : inlines <6310> : streams <1775972> : uri <2569884> 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: 2.1.21 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:221941 Archived-At: >> > Since ChangeLog is generated from Git log, it _is_ useful when all you >> > have is the ChangeLog. Which could happen if, for example, you want >> > to work on Emacs while off-line during a long flight. >> I very often work off-line, but Git gives me just as much info in that case. > That depends on the job you need to do. Having outdated Git > repository for prolonged amounts of time is not recommended. The question under discussion is what to put in ChangeLogs and commit messages. Fetching new changes (and corresponding commit messages) is an orthogonal problem. Stefan