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Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages
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Kelvin White |
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Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages |
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Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:25:18 -0500 |
"Paul Eggert" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 11/19/2014 08:04 PM, Yuri Khan wrote:
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>> What is the existing practice for such cases?
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> Existing practice elsewhere is to have just one generated ChangeLog file, at the top level. If we had done this for Emacs from day one, we'd have a ChangeLog file of about 25 MB. Although this would have been too large in the old days, nowadays it's not such a big deal, as computers typically have way more than 25 MB. When I open a 25 MB ChangeLog file with Emacs, it appears instantaneously on my screen, and I can navigate through it without delays.
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> I prefer having a single ChangeLog file to having smaller ChangeLog* files in various locations, as it's a bit easier to scout through history that way. The patch that I've proposed in Bug#19113 doesn't go that far, though; it merely arranges for future git commit messages to be copied into the top-level ChangeLog. Perhaps coalescing the historical ChangeLog files could be done in a followon patch.
I agree. Also, there is a separate ChangeLog file in the lisp/erc directory. How would I deal with this regarding this topic. Should it be merged or removed?
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, (continued)
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/18
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/18
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Richard Stallman, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Yuri Khan, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Yuri Khan, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/20
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages,
Kelvin White <=
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/21
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Bastien, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/29
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Jan D., 2014/11/29
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Jorgen Schaefer, 2014/11/30
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Paul Eggert, 2014/11/30
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/30
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/30
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/11/30