annotate admin/notes/commits @ 110645:7d7a02c19d8c

Fix int/EMACS_INT use in xdisp.c and print.c. print.c (print_object): Fix format string and argument types for printing a Lisp_Misc_Marker. xdisp.c (pos_visible_p, c_string_pos, number_of_chars) (load_overlay_strings, get_overlay_strings_1) (get_overlay_strings, forward_to_next_line_start) (back_to_previous_visible_line_start, reseat, reseat_to_string) (get_next_display_element, next_element_from_string) (next_element_from_c_string, next_element_from_buffer) (move_it_vertically_backward, move_it_by_lines, add_to_log) (message_dolog, message_log_check_duplicate, message2_nolog) (message3, message3_nolog, vmessage, set_message, set_message_1) (hscroll_window_tree, text_outside_line_unchanged_p) (set_cursor_from_row, set_vertical_scroll_bar, redisplay_window) (find_last_unchanged_at_beg_row) (find_first_unchanged_at_end_row, row_containing_pos) (trailing_whitespace_p, display_mode_element, decode_mode_spec) (display_count_lines, x_produce_glyphs, note_mouse_highlight): Use EMACS_INT for buffer and string positions. dispextern.h (struct it) <string_nchars>: Declare EMACS_INT. (row_containing_pos): Adjust prototype. lisp.h (pos_visible_p, message2, message2_nolog, message3) (message2_nolog, set_message): Adjust prototypes.

HOW TO COMMIT CHANGES TO EMACS

Most of these points are from:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-03/msg00555.html
From: 	 Miles Bader
Subject: commit style redux
Date: 	 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:21:20 +0900

(0) Each commit should correspond to a single change (whether spread
    over multiple files or not).  Do not mix different changes in the
    same commit (eg adding a feature in one file, fixing a bug in
    another should be two commits, not one).

(1) Commit all changed files at once with a single log message (which
    in CVS will result in an identical log message for all committed
    files), not one-by-one.  This is pretty easy using vc-dir now.

(2) Make the log message describe the entire changeset, perhaps
    including relevant changelog entiries (I often don't bother with
    the latter if it's a trivial sort of change).

    Many modern source-control systems vaguely distinguish the first
    line of the log message to use as a short summary for abbreviated
    history listing (in arch this was explicitly called the summary,
    but many other systems have a similar concept).  So it's nice if
    you can format the log entry like:

        SHORTISH ONE-LINE SUMMARY

        MULTIPLE-LINE DETAILED DESCRIPTION POSSIBLY INCLUDING (OR
        CONSISTING OF) CHANGELOG ENTRIES

    [Even with CVS this style is useful, because web CVS browsing
    interfaces often include the first N words of the log message of
    the most recent commit as a short "most recent change"
    description.]

(3) Don't phrase log messages assuming the filename is known, because
    in non-file-oriented systems (everything modern other than CVS),
    the log listing tends to be treated as global information, and the
    connection with specific files is less explicit.

    For instance, currently I often see log messages like "Regenerate";
    for modern source-control systems with a global log, it's better to
    have something like "Regenerate configure".


Followup discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-01/msg00897.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-02/msg00401.html


PREVIOUS GUIDELINES FOR CVS

For historical interest only, here is the old-style advice for CVS logs:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg01208.html

From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Log messages in CVS
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:06:29 +0200