From: joakim@verona.se
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in the elpa branch
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:45:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aa9qxqrc.fsf@chopper.vpn.verona.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SSXr_574diUj-jTr-0W-M3nRbaV27si8Mvw9TDwwPYpQA@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:05:50 +0200")
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:10, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>>> I think this just reflects the better support in change-log-mode, with
>>> highlighting, C-x 4 a and things like that.
>>
>> I disagree, I think people take more care with ChangeLogs.
>
> I'm with Glenn again. And part of the fact is, IMO, the immediacy of
> writting the commit logs. I'd bet not many people write them at a
> leisurely pace before even starting the commit.
A ChangeLog is somewhat similar to a Tag. That is, when you are pleased
with something you write a little more detail than you usually do in
commits. So, in bazaar you could presumably work on a branch, committing
as usual. Before you merge to trunk you optionaly tag, then merge. The
Tag will contain the fantastically superior commit message. This could
potentially even be an improvement over the ChangeLog format which
sometimes is a bit terse IMHO.
That said I don't have a strong opinion. I personally don't like the
hassle of the ChangeLogs for small changes. Historically I haven't made
many small changes to Emacs so I don't get hit often. Instead I've made
some larger patches and when merging them handling the ChangeLog is the
least of my worries.
Anyway, compared to many projects I'm involved Emacs is a shining beacon
of light with regards to the lucidity of the commit history so whatever
changes we do we should preserve that aspect.
>
> Juanma
>
--
Joakim Verona
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 7:09 ChangeLogs in the elpa branch Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 9:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-26 10:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 10:35 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 14:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 16:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:13 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-26 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 13:49 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 16:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-26 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 21:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 21:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27 3:10 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-27 5:22 ` Bastien
2011-09-27 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-27 9:04 ` Bastien
2011-09-27 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 13:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 7:10 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 9:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 9:45 ` joakim [this message]
2011-09-27 12:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 9:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 12:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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