[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
From: |
John Wiegley |
Subject: |
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Mar 2016 13:23:22 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.92 (darwin) |
>>>>> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
> On 03/08/2016 10:56 PM, David Caldwell wrote:
>> Since notes seem like a no-go, what about taking the same approach but
>> using an empty commit to do it (`git commit --allow-empty`)? That way it
>> gets pushed and merged between branches just like normal.
> How would such commit indicate a relation to an existing commit? And after
> making it, you can't easily edit the result, you can only redo it fully.
What if we had a ADDENDUM file with the following contents:
<COMMIT ID><NEWLINE>
<REPLACEMENT LOG MESSAGE><NEWLINE>
<NEWLINE>
Then we could teach vc-region-history and the ChangeLog generator to pay
attention to it.
--
John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
- Re: Code reviews (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?), (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, David Caldwell, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
John Wiegley <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, David Caldwell, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/03/07
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07