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Re: File names in ChangeLog entries
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: File names in ChangeLog entries |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:36:39 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>, kfogel@red-bean.com, stefan@marxist.se,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, ttn@gnuvola.org
> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 16:09:20 -0500
>
> > You don't need to guess, you need to look at the rest of the log
> > message.
>
> I guess that begs the question: what do you think is the role of the
> Summary, IOW how is it intended/expected to be used?
>
> In my own experience, there are two main cases where I've made use of them:
>
> - When listing a chain of commits for a particular change.
I don't understand what this means. Are you talking about the history
of changes in a particular region of a file? Then "git log -L" is
your friend.
> I wonder how you use them.
I just read the summary and find the ones that could potentially be
relevant to whatever I'm looking for. But mostly I just use "git log",
where I see the entire log message with all the details.
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, (continued)
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/01
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/01
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/01
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/01
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Karl Fogel, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/03
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/03
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Karl Fogel, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Kangas, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Karl Fogel, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Stefan Monnier, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/02
- Re: File names in ChangeLog entries, Matt Armstrong, 2021/12/02