Re: [Emacs-diffs] master e820f16: Added file-tree-walk to files.el.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:41:40 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On 12/03/2014 11:27 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > You want it even when the ChangeLog part is a trivial
> > repetition of the summary line?
> 
> It's not needed for one-liners.

I agree.

> For commit 
> e820f16c06a5a6be4bc87910b349c7c3c6eca0f4, for example, your ChangeLog 
> entry was "* files.el (file-tree-walk): Lisp translation of ANSI 
> ftw(3).", and that one-liner should have been the git commit message, too.

Yes, but please lose the "*" part, it just wastes precious real estate.

>      In vc, abolish the dir-status method.
> 
>      *  vc.el, all backends: API simplification: Abolish dir-status.
>      It's replaced by dir-status-files.

Likewise here: no need to keep the asterisks.