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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2016-02-01 21:08:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2016-02-01 21:08:56 -0500 |
| commit | dc435af152e6df3d85b0c21eaf9ff39dce0091bb (patch) | |
| tree | ed7ce7ab5c100d7cb6f91ad72c828953ef99e3c4 /doc/emacs/maintaining.texi | |
| parent | a39a03a3bf6c1ec522d7b7d6b7f2bf8271ed1a2f (diff) | |
| download | emacs-dc435af152e6df3d85b0c21eaf9ff39dce0091bb.tar.gz | |
Make find-change-log prefer a VCS root, if no ChangeLog exists.
* lisp/vc/add-log.el (change-log-directory-files): New option.
(find-change-log): Respect change-log-directory-files.
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Change Log Commands):
Mention change-log-directory-files.
; * etc/NEWS: Mention this.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index 3f1a9c07e91..72d428af8fb 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -1590,6 +1590,13 @@ also creates a new item for the current file. For many languages, it can even guess the name of the function or other object that was changed. +@c Not worth it. +@c @vindex change-log-directory-files +To find the change log file, Emacs searches up the directory tree from +the file you are editing. By default, it stops if it finds a +directory that seems to be the root of a version-control repository. +To change this, customize @code{change-log-directory-files}. + @vindex add-log-keep-changes-together When the variable @code{add-log-keep-changes-together} is non-@code{nil}, @kbd{C-x 4 a} adds to any existing item for the file |