Re: [Savannah-help-public] Really strange emacs-diffs message

[Derek R. Price]

There was another commit by Stefan Monnier 17 seconds earlier (to
emacs/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog and, sure enough, the revision #'s are 1.476 &
1.477.  Looks like the log_accum.pl script is losing some path
information somewhere and sent the diff for those revisions based on the
ChangeLog in the parent directory instead of emacs/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog.

It looks like the commit emails are confused too
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-commit/2006-07/msg00951.html &
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-commit/2006-07/msg00952.html).
  The first (incorrectly) reports that the entire commit happens in
emacs/lib/gnus, then (correctly) reports that the modified files are
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog and lisp/tabify.el.  Both emails have the correct
CVSWeb URLs for the files they are reporting, so the data structures are
probably correct with the confusion only in the processing and output
routines that generate the subject lines and the diffs.

Unless I am misunderstanding this as two consecutive commits, one of
lisp/gnus/ChangeLog and lisp/tabify.el, followed shortly by one of
lisp/ChangeLog.  If so, then the problem may run a bit deeper.

I don't suppose we might have been so lucky that you had the
log_accum.pl debug log enabled during the period in question?

Derek


Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Derek, any clue? :|
> 
> The issues I saw are:
> - the diff is 6-years old (it's around rev.9800 now)
> - rev 477 was not commited by 'monnier' but by 'gerd'
> 
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> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:34:27 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [Savannah-help-public] Really strange emacs-diffs message
> 
> Do you know what CVS action might have caused
> this peculiar message?
> 
> 
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:05:57 +0000
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v
> To: address@hidden
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> 
> CVSROOT:      /sources/emacs
> Module name:  emacs
> Changes by:   Stefan Monnier <monnier>        06/07/25 18:05:54
> 
> Index: ChangeLog
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/ChangeLog,v
> retrieving revision 1.476
> retrieving revision 1.477
> diff -u -b -r1.476 -r1.477
> --- ChangeLog 21 Mar 2000 15:35:06 -0000      1.476
> +++ ChangeLog 21 Mar 2000 21:52:05 -0000      1.477
> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> +2000-03-21  Gerd Moellmann  <address@hidden>
> +
> +     * progmodes/etags.el (tags-case-fold-search): New user-option.
> +     (tags-loop-eval): New function.  Bind case-fold-search around eval
> +     depending on the value of tags-case-fold-search.
> +     (tags-loop-continue): Use tags-loop-eval.
> +     (find-tag-in-order): Bind case-fold-search depending on the value
> +     of tags-case-fold-search.
> +
>  2000-03-21  Stefan Monnier  <address@hidden>
>  
>       * derived.el (define-derived-mode): Don't autoload anymore.
> 
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