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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
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Wed, 9 Mar 2016 15:39:25 -0800 |
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On 03/09/2016 12:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
it's fortress -- if you dismantle one of its bastions, the others
will soon fall as well.
It's not a fortress, as is demonstrated in other GNU projects. For
example, here are the last three commit messages for coreutils, which
has been using the proposed approach since 2008. These commit messages
are just as good as what we typically see for Emacs. Maybe better. I'm
sure we can improve the quality of Emacs commit messages, but putting
them into ChangeLog files is not necessary or even all that helpful for
doing so.
commit e735d417fb2e5c7427b3622f2a78e65e450b49a8
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 8 16:01:34 2016 -0700
build: update gnulib submodule to latest
Mainly for:
*bdb72bc6 set-permissions: fix compilation on Cygwin
* bootstrap: Sync with gnulib.
* gl/lib/regcomp.c.diff: Regenerate against latest gnulib.
commit 68ede201e8890b757aa37d72ce4dca872155f7db
Author: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Mar 6 16:38:01 2016 -0800
tests: avoid false-failure of split/filter.sh on XFS
* tests/split/filter.sh: Use OFF_T_MAX-1 rather than OFF_T_MAX
as the size of a test file, to avoid false failure on an XFS file
system (or any file system permitting a file of size OFF_T_MAX).
Reported as http://bugs.gnu.org/22931
commit 6475c514550bc1fbdb3410485312211726765798
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 4 09:47:33 2016 -0700
test: Document that -a and -o are undesirable
POSIX recommends avoiding -a and -o, for good reason.
src/test.c (usage): Mention that inherent ambiguities exist with
binary -a and -o.
Problem reported by Martin Gebert in: http://bugs.gnu.org/22909
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/10
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Nikolaus Rath, 2016/03/11