On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 02:46:46AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 06:32:12PM -0700, GitHub wrote:
> > >   Branch: refs/heads/ta/reluctant-news
> > >   Home:   https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm
> > >   Commit: 64d4244746754610a64ed35de9ca69e557d3e25a
> > >       
> > > https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/commit/64d4244746754610a64ed35de9ca69e557d3e25a
> > >   Author: Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org>
> > >   Date:   2016-10-23 (Sun, 23 Oct 2016)
> > > 
> > >   Changed paths:
> > >     M docs/DEVELOPERS.md
> > > 
> > >   Log Message:
> > >   -----------
> > >   DEVELOPERS: mention NEWS file
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > > Let's try and get patches which introduce changes to also include changes 
> > > to
> > > the NEWS file.
> 
> ... but in a separate commit please.  Patching the NEWS file in
> the same commit as the code change makes bug hunting and reverting
> patches more difficult.

Maybe, but how often does that really happen?  The problem with making NEWS
file special somehow is going to cause problems with git-bisect because you'd
be forever skipping over commits.

-- Thomas Adam

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