Re: emacs.git mirror status

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > How about putting that history into the ChangeLog files?
>
>     Argh! You specifically requested this history be taken out
>     ("simplifying" or "crunching" the ChangeLogs) before the merge could
>     be done!
>
> I did not realize we were talking about that information.  Oops!

Well, at least I wasn't.  I was talking about per-commit information.

> Why is the information about early changes in multi-tty so
> important?  Did they put explanations of reasons and problems into
> the change log?

The fine-grained history of changes makes it possible to see what
changes belong together and are likely to constitute one change set
with one meaning.  This would be important for figuring out the
relation between things even if there were no ChangeLog entries, and
no commit logs.  While I have not looked at the original Bazaar
archive yet, it would be my hope that there _are_ some commit logs in
there, too.

> We normally put that information into comments in the code, which is
> the best place for it; as a consequence, crunching the old change
> log history doesn't lose those explanations.

But the explanations don't help with figuring out which exact lines
were involved with what change.

-- 
David Kastrup