Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[João Távora]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:26:21 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>      address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > You are working too hard, IMO.  I generally write the GNU-style
>> > ChangeLog entries only when I land a feature on the development
>> > branch, I don't write them while working on a feature branch.  On a
>> > feature branch, my log entries are very short and only describe what
>> > milestones were reached and what significant issues fixed.  So the
>> > multiple entries and related problems never happen for me.
>> 
>> Yeah I do scratchy local dev work without proper entries too, but I
>> wasn't talking about that, just about committing twice to the same file
>> on the same day.  I take it you never do (really?)
>
> Of course, I do.  But I have a real ChangeLog file, and I use
> "C-x 4 a", not the vc-next-action followed by "C-c C-a".

OK, to be clear I also use "C-x 4 a" and, begrudgingly, a real ChangeLog
file.  So I take it the difference is that you find and copy-paste the
entries from the file.  It's my turn to say you are working too hard,
IMO :-).

João