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 14:03:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457463880 15642 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 19:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:04:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 20:04:29 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 1adMvj-0002ar-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:04:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMvi-0005cK-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMvO-0005bz-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:04:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMvL-0004Ht-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56803) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adMvL-0004Hi-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 14:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adMvD-0002C8-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 20:03:55 +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 20:03:55 +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 20:03:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:gSblgHzocK+5+x/NDv7DpVjspcQ= 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:201193 Archived-At: > - Commit messages cannot be edited. > This is an area where "git notes" could, in fact, help. The idea > is not that we use git notes for every commit, to provide > ChangeLog data, but use them to "amend" commit log messages. > That way, when generating the ChangeLog for release, a git note > can override a commit message, correcting what appears in the > final ChangeLog. I agree that this problem can be solved. I'm far from convinced that "git notes" can be part of such a solution, but if it works: fine by me. But I don't want to only fix the generated ChangeLog files. I'd like the fixed text to appear at least in `vc-region-history' and `vc-print-log'. Otherwise, it's a lot of work that doesn't help me. Stefan