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: merging etc Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:39:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200708211523.l7LFNnVl000876@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200708220820.l7M8KbIt026014@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187977272 24267 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2007 17:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karoly@lorentey.hu, miles@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 19:41:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOd9d-0001bo-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOd9c-0002jH-SW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOd8s-0002LE-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOd8o-0002Jv-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:40:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOd8o-0002Jo-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOd8X-0001Xm-3p; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.80.33]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070824173950.FCKW1592.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1463A816F; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:39:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 24 Aug 2007 12\:10\:05 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77102 Archived-At: >> Not crunching changelog makes for a lot more work understanding it >> in the future. > I see no evidence or hint that it would be the case. > The bigger the change log is, the harder it is to grasp > the changes described. I tend to believe the opposite: the description of small changes are easier to understand than description of combined changes. Stefan