Re: M-x add-release-logs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:08:33 -0500
> 
> If you meant "if I have the Emacs 24.7 tarfile, and want to know what
> the last change to subdir/foo.el was in Emacs 24.1, without either the
> 24.1 tarfile or a copy of the repository"

Yes, that's what I meant.

> then first you would have to hope that 24.7 and 24.1 came from the
> same branch

They usually do.

> and then you would just look at the top-level ChangeLog (rather than
> subdir/ChangeLog) in 24.7 to get the release date for 24.1.

Date granularity is not fine enough to tell what was the last change,
not in busy directories like src and lisp.