From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:40:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utzlsv41g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeve6a6ek6.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:09 +0100)
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:48:09 +0100
> Cc: esr@golux.thyrsus.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
> > Currently our ChangeLogs contain information about the contributor
> > which is not necessarily identical to the committer. Would a recent
> > VCS hold this information in a form that an automatically regenerated
> > ChangeLog contains it too?
>
> Git distinguishes between the author and the committer. (But I don't
> think it can directly deal with multiple authors.)
We also have "(tiny change)" labels in the ChangeLog entries, which
need to be accessible when one looks up a file's history.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-30 14:28 Selection-set editing without VC-dired Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 14:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02 2:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-02 4:55 ` Bob Rogers
2008-01-03 9:50 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-03 16:25 ` Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Reiner Steib
2008-01-03 16:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-05 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-01-05 5:55 ` Selection-set editing without VC-dired Richard Stallman
2008-01-03 19:56 ` merging the unicode-2 branch (was: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 5:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-05 9:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-01-05 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-05 22:29 ` merging the unicode-2 branch Stefan Monnier
2008-01-06 18:10 ` merging the unicode-2 branch (was: Re: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) Richard Stallman
2008-01-07 3:02 ` merging the unicode-2 branch Miles Bader
2008-01-07 5:50 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-07 8:20 ` David Kastrup
2008-01-07 14:48 ` Miles Bader
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