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bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make cha
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) |
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Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:26:49 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:34:12 -0800
> Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> John Wiegley wrote:
> > What do you all think about ChangeLogs, and their value
> > to you in your work on Emacs?
>
> I regularly do the equivalent of:
>
> grep PATTERN $(git ls-files | grep -v ChangeLog)
>
> That is, in searches I typically ignore ChangeLog* files because of their
> less-useful chatter.
It is a truism that when you know ChangeLog files don't included the
information you are after, you'd like to exclude them. Likewise, when
I'm looking for information that can only be found in ChangeLog files,
I will filter out everything else as "less-useful chatter".
> Even if we remove ChangeLogs, we should still have guidelines for commit
> message
> format
We won't be able to enforce that rule for long. It's a slippery
slope. Very slippery.
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Glenn Morris, 2016/03/04
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/05
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, John Wiegley, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Ingo Lohmar, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), John Wiegley, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Paul Eggert, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Drew Adams, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Drew Adams, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Mathieu Lirzin, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/03/07
bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Glenn Morris, 2016/03/08
bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/07