From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: merging etc Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200708211523.l7LFNnVl000876@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <200708220820.l7M8KbIt026014@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <87lkc3qe2z.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187942512 5075 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2007 08:01:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:01:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 10:01:49 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 1IOU72-0000Zz-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:01:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOU6z-0005oX-Cs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOU6v-0005oS-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:01:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOU6t-0005o6-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOU6t-0005o3-C5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from proxy3.bredband.net ([195.54.101.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOU6s-0002f4-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from kurono.home (83.227.131.3) by proxy3.bredband.net (7.3.127) id 46CDAD590002B776 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:01:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 23 Aug 2007 16\:58\:53 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:77075 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > And maybe after adding ChangeLog entries from multy-tty to the trunk's > ChangeLog to change all dates (without crunching changelog entries) to the > date of sync with the trunk. This will look as all multy-tty changes were > made on the same day and won't break the chronology in ChangeLog. > > Changing all the dates to the date of installation in the trunk > is essential. That is what permit the second step of combining > and simplifying the various entries. If a clear and concise algorithm can be presented on how to proceed with this "crunching" I can atempt to do so. I am motivated to get the mtty functionality into emacs core, even if I wouldn't do the merging this way myself. (I hope the mtty history wont be lost this way, that would really not be very good) -- Joakim Verona