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Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Jan 2018 18:29:17 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) |
Hello, Eli.
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 17:36:31 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:24:57 -0500
> > Also we need to "interpret" the ChangeLog guidelines in the context of
> > tools such as vc-region-history where we don't need to look through the
> > ChangeLog just to know when a given piece of code was modified.
> Let's not forget that we don't always have access to a VCS. Moreover,
> sometimes you are looking for information that is not easily gleaned
> from Git history. One example is establishing whether some change was
> in Emacs XX.YY or in a later version. Given our messy DAG and Git's
> general indifference to branch-specific history, I find the
> ChangeLog's in the tarball a better tool for this job.
I agree. Frequently, I am looking for recent changes in a particular
function. C-s in the ChangeLog is much more convenient than a git blame
(or several of them in succession) followed by remembering the hash of an
indicated change (or several of them), followed by a git show (or several
of them).
Let's please keep these individual function change descriptions in the VC
log (which will eventually become the ChangeLog).
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), (continued)
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Paul Eggert, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Dmitry Gutov, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support),
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Alan Mackenzie, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stephen Leake, 2018/01/03
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Richard Stallman, 2018/01/04
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el), Richard Stallman, 2018/01/02
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support), Stefan Monnier, 2018/01/02
- Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support) (Was: The name gnus-cloud.el), Richard Stallman, 2018/01/07