Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:14:13 +0600
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>, John Wiegley <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Btw, the best solution would be to have these tricks added to standard
> > Git installation, or maybe to GNU Diff (which I think Git uses?).  Why
> > should users need to reinvent the same wheel all the time?
> 
> Git in fact predefines header regexps for many languages predefined
> (see list below). It just does not apply them out-of-the-box; the user
> has to add the “*.tex diff=tex” and similar mappings to one of their
> gitattributes file.

Then I guess my suggestion above is that these _are_ applied out of
the box.

>     The following built in patterns are available:
> 
>        ·   ada suitable for source code in the Ada language.
>        ·   bibtex suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
>        ·   cpp suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
>        ·   csharp suitable for source code in the C# language.
>        ·   fortran suitable for source code in the Fortran language.
>        ·   fountain suitable for Fountain documents.
>        ·   html suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
>        ·   java suitable for source code in the Java language.
>        ·   matlab suitable for source code in the MATLAB language.
>        ·   objc suitable for source code in the Objective-C language.
>        ·   pascal suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language.
>        ·   perl suitable for source code in the Perl language.
>        ·   php suitable for source code in the PHP language.
>        ·   python suitable for source code in the Python language.
>        ·   ruby suitable for source code in the Ruby language.
>        ·   tex suitable for source code for LaTeX documents.

We need some more, which are not in this list.

Thanks.