From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 17:53:43 +0200 Message-ID: <899F490B-7F1E-4EA2-BE34-6D2143B6910D@gmail.com> References: <2151275B-C80E-4B40-9022-8C9054020163@gmail.com> <469766F9-7C25-4792-A203-B241C22E2ED5@gmail.com> <94D31A4E-B262-4E06-AE2A-9C3D43145CAC@gmail.com> <7D47FD95-8C8D-4540-864A-D2C76B998A52@gmail.com> <87wruxicy4.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <32B3D851-51FA-43FA-8B14-594597FB42A1@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50288 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OFUXl-0001P5-Fb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 11:53:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFUXj-0006zp-UT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 11:53:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com ([209.85.219.216]:62517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OFUXj-0006zb-Mv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 May 2010 11:53:47 -0400 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so259512ewy.8 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <32B3D851-51FA-43FA-8B14-594597FB42A1@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Cc: Tassilo Horn , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On May 21, 2010, at 5:06 PM, John Wiegley wrote: > On May 21, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > >> I think it would be better if line 3+ would be exact ChangeLog >> entries >> format-wise, so that you can still use emacs' ChangeLog facilities >> (`add-change-log-entry'). I don't really want to write the changed >> file >> and function names on my own, and adding them correctly is exactly >> what >> that function does very well. > > This ends up looking rather ugly in the history, and I would hate to > see VCS history bent merely to conform to tools usage. > > Rather, the history should be as clean and exact as possible. If > elisp functions need to be written to convert ChangeLog entries to a > suitable format, I can do that. > > Also, in magit if you press 'C' on any diff hunk, it auto-generates > a properly formatted ChangeLog-style comment into the current commit > log. But only the file, not the function... - Carsten