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Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log* |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:00:05 +0200 |
> From: Stephen Berman <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:30:32 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> 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.
No, _you_ should create a file at top level, and then everything will
continue working. That's why the top-level file is called
ChangeLog.2: to keep it out of your way.
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- ChangeLog to *VC-log* (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?), Stephen Berman, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/09
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/09
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/09
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/10
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Xue Fuqiao, 2016/03/10
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/10
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/08
Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Paul Eggert, 2016/03/06
RE: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Drew Adams, 2016/03/06