Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Stephen,

> I found the cause of the change in behavior I observed: it's due to the
> elimination of files named "ChangeLog" from the Emacs sources (there are
> now only files named "ChangeLog.<n>").  In consequence, find-change-log
> creates an empty file named "ChangeLog" in the immediate directory of
> the file in which `C-x 4 a' was invoked, e.g. in lisp/calendar/, when
> I'm editing todo-mode.el; previously, `C-x 4 a' found lisp/ChangeLog.  I
> guess those who don't see this keep an non-VCS-tracked file "ChangeLog"
> at top level.
>
> If we don't return to maintaining versioned ChangeLog files, I think it
> would be desirable for `C-x 4 a' to always create (or find) the file
> "ChangeLog" at top level when editing Emacs sources, since this would
> add the required directory levels to the commit message.  (Of course,
> people could just always use `C-u C-x 4 a', but that's not as
> convenient.)  Since other projects that could use `C-x 4 a' may have
> different requirements on its effect, this should be conditioned by a
> user option (or maybe just a plain variable), which can (and probably
> should) be set in .dir-locals.el.  What do others think?

Does commit dc435af152e6df3d85b0c21eaf9ff39dce0091bb fix this issue?

(I'm not sure if I understand the issue at hand correctly, because I
don't use 'C-x 4 a' very often.)