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Re: master cbef1e9 2/3: ; make change-history-commit


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: master cbef1e9 2/3: ; make change-history-commit
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:30:34 -0700
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On 04/15/2015 10:39 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
maybe it is actually easier for people to correct the generated C'log,
rather than figure out what commit log they should have written.


Yes, I think it's more natural.

I've done it the other way, with Coreutils, and the problem is that hacking on a ChangeLog edit script is one more thing for developers to learn, and that's a barrier to fixing ChangeLog history. It's OK for Coreutils, whose few developers have been coached to write consistent-format commit messages and where people don't much care about a ChangeLog typo unless it's something important (like proper attribution). It wouldn't work as well for for Emacs, which has dozens of developers not all of who are on the same page with regards to commit message format, and which has a greater emphasis on typo-free ChangeLog history.

Anyway, I installed the two changes we discussed, so we should be better off than we were before.



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