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: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:43:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <20160306220502.GA23154@thyrsus.com> <8760wx442f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457448344 6145 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 14:45:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:45:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 15:45:32 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 1adIt9-0005Qy-8R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adIt8-0006QF-MB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43117) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adIsz-0006Pi-Na for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adIsu-0003Hz-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:45:21 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36006) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adIsu-0003Hv-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adIsi-00059C-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com ([157.52.15.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gKd+Rozu9oGcWqxUrl69+05lGbo= 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:201145 Archived-At: > 2016-03-08 Uwe Brauer > * gnus-init.el (gnus-user-format-function-G): For this reasons, I have an (untracked) ChangeLog file in all my repositories. This way I can use C-x 4 a to write a ChangeLog entry in the "good old way" and then VC will automatically copy that data into the *VC-Log* buffer for me to commit it. I had a hack which made C-x 4 a insert that text directly into *VC-Log* but in the end I found it didn't work so well: it didn't let me save the intermediate commit message and return to it later so it worked OK for small simple changes, but for larger commits with larger diffs I found it rather inconvenient. Stefan