From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: git and changelogs Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:08:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87prpfgguz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <873aoanjcl.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <49dd78620807111522p61119440n3638f8cb6f69cddc@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216145351 26349 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 18:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:09:11 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 20:09:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIoyI-0002CU-Td for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:09:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoxQ-0007T5-Cf for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoxL-0007Qz-0F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoxJ-0007QP-Bt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38261 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoxJ-0007QM-9k for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57278 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIoxJ-0004a9-0a for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KIoxC-0004uG-Pa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:08:46 +0000 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:08:46 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:08:46 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 28 Messidor an 216 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ezv1keB2mBP4S7ZSE+vvqr5QlqI= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7377 Archived-At: Hello! "Neil Jerram" writes: > 2008/5/22 Thien-Thi Nguyen : >> >> There was discussion on Git + ChangeLog on the gnulib list about half a >> year back. I can't recall the outcome, but do remember one side effect >> was that someone wrote a merge program specifically for ChangeLog files, >> that could hook into Git somehow. > > Attached is my attempt (thus far) at such a program. Comments > welcome, of course. IIUC, the idea is to fill in `ChangeLog' files as usual and then let this program extract entries from there and put them in the Git log, right? That seems useful, but it means you can't use your favorite front-end to commit. > It would be good if we could reach a clear > decision on whether to abolish ChangeLogs, or not! I'd say "yes", but OTOH, I haven't found anything like Emacs' `add-change-log-entry' that would fit nicely into my workflow (I did look at DVC but it looks unmaintained and undocumented ATM). IOW, laziness has won so far. :-) Thanks, Ludo'.