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Re: ChangeLogs (was: Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @exa
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Jaroslav Hajek |
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Re: ChangeLogs (was: Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @example in docstrings) |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:05:49 +0100 |
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5-Jan-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | Applied.
>
> Thanks for applying this change.
>
> It still seems confusing to me that you leave the ChangeLog entry
> alone when applying patches. If I do "hg log" now, I see
>
> changeset: 8444:c3ac9f2772cd
> tag: tip
> user: Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>
> date: Mon Jan 05 10:54:22 2009 +0100
> summary: do not eat white space within @example environments of
> docstrings
>
> at the top, but the ChangeLog entry for this change does not have a
> Jan 5 date. Instead, it has a 2008-11-07 date. If I were looking at
> this ChangeLog entry and wanted to find the corresponding changeset,
> the date for the ChangeLog entry would not help me find the changeset.
> This is why I think we should revise the date of the ChangeLog entry
> when checking in changes so that new ChangeLog entries should always
> appear at the top of the ChangeLog file.
>
Sorry, I didn't notice the changelog entry didn't go on top of the
file. I do agree that it always should. We should note this in
contrib.txi. Mea culpa.
> Or, we should simply decide to do away with ChangeLog files entirely.
> But if we do that, I think we should put much more complete commit
> messages in the mercurial log files, and we should agree on a common
> style for the commit messages.
>
> jwe
>
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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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- Re: ChangeLogs, (continued)
- Re: ChangeLogs, Thomas Weber, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Thomas Weber, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs (was: Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @example in docstrings), Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/01/05
- Re: ChangeLogs, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/01/15
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Jaroslav Hajek <=
- Re: ChangeLogs, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Daniel J Sebald, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/01/06
- Re: ChangeLogs, Thorsten Meyer, 2009/01/18
- Re: ChangeLogs, John W. Eaton, 2009/01/19