Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    > This is an issue even for short and trivial patches. For example, for
>    > this one:
>
>    > 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f8b4e87d5d4f57954b50677add76ce5136211dc1
>
>    > I guess that it took me a couple of minutes to write and test the patch,
>    > and about the same time to write the ChangeLog entry.
>
> I fetched that page and did not see anything like a ChangeLog entry.

I cannot fetch the page now, since Savannah is broken (it says "502 Bad 
Gateway").

> Unless it is this:
>
>     Fix copyright years by hand
>     These are dates that admin/update-copyright did not update, or updated
>     incorrectly.

That's not the patch I was referring to. I'm attaching a copy of the patch I was 
talking about. It was generated by the shell command "git format-patch 
f8b4e87d5d4f57954b50677add76ce5136211dc1^!".

0001-Fix-.gdbinit-to-work-with-Lisp_Word.patch
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