Re: CVS commits and logs

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Nov 08 2006, Miles Bader wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Why couldn't you find those changes through lisp/gnus/ChangeLog?  They
>> should all appear near one another.

I don't remember the details exactly.  IIRC, I often had to look at
the output of `C-x v l' (vc-print-log), the current diff (`d' =
`log-view-diff') and the diff between the two versions of the file
(Emacs vs. Gnus repository).  Searching in the Changelog file for
possible related changes would make it more complicated.

It's also possible that related changes are not mentioned in the same
ChangeLog file, say lisp/ChangeLog and lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
(e.g. changes in pgg*.el or mail/*.el which also require changes in
gnus/mml*.el).  [I'm not sure that there were such cases, though.]

> Probably he could have, but the closer the commit log and the changelog
> entry are in form, the easier it is.

ACK.

In general, I agree to the guidelines and it's a good idea to describe
the rules in some file in admin/.  WRT the multi-file commits, it
would be nice if there's a PCL-CVS's commit command that automates
splitting a commit like this one, if we don't want multi-file commits.

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| 2006-04-06  Reiner Steib  <address@hidden>
| 
|       * files.el: Move some `safe-local-variable' declarations to the
|       respective files.
| 
|       * textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-check-comments)
|       (ispell-local-dictionary): Mark as safe.
| 
|       * abbrev.el (abbrev-mode): Mark as safe.
|[...]
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Bye, Reiner.
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