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bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated Change
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Jun 2015 22:32:04 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: 20717@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:48:55 -0400
>
> 1. The dates of merged entries are wrong by an arbitrary amount.
> You can see the "cairo" entries in current ChangeLog.2 for an example of
> this. IIUC, this isn't fixable without getting the reflog involved.
> Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg00102.html
>
> 2. Entries that were "skipped" when gitmerge.el'ing from emacs-24 to
> master still appear in the generated ChangeLog. Check tomorrow's
> automatically updated ChangeLog.2 for examples of that. Or type `make
> ChangeLog' today. You'll see entries like
>
> 2015-04-11 Ulrich Mueller <ulm>
>
> Bump Emacs version to 24.5.50.
>
> that were skipped when merging from emacs-24. It's especially confusing
> because if merging isn't done very often (and recent history suggests it
> won't be), these entries will be offset from the relevant "Merge from
> origin/emacs-24" entry by a large distance. This isn't an issue now
> because the emacs-24 branch is basically dead, but it will be for the
> next release.
Do logs of changes made on feature branches also appear like that, and
are also misplaced? E.g., what do you get there of the commits on the
large-fonts branch I merged today? They shouldn't appear at all, I
think.
> I would hope that this one is fixable, with some work on admin/gitmerge.el
> and/or build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog.
I hope so too.
> But I get the impression that a readable ChangeLog isn't much of a
> priority for Emacs anymore. Maybe no-one will miss it.
I will.
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/02
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/05
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/06
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/06
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/06
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/10
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Glenn Morris, 2015/06/10
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/10
- bug#20717: attribution of gitmerge.el merged entries in generated ChangeLog, Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/08