Richard Stallman wrote:
dealing with those
links (which I never did, not even when installing changes in Emacs on
Savannah every day) is not something I can reliably do.
Yes, and I'm afraid that from my point of view I'm trying to explain standard
and stable version-control technology to senior hackers who insist on not being
inconvenienced even if they don't use the technology. I have the same feeling
that I did back in the 1970s trying to explain online editors to traditional
programmers who insisted on using punched cards. Until one seriously uses the
new tools it is hard to appreciate their power and convenience.
It has this history entry:
Problem reported by Stefan Monnier (Bug#29957).
* src/.gdbinit (xgetptr, xgetint, xgettype):
Cast Lisp_Word value to EMACS_INT, since it might be a pointer now.
You missed the first line of the history entry, which is the most important
line. Here it is:
Fix .gdbinit to work with Lisp_Word
So, what would you have suggested using for the history entry?
Just this one line:
Fix .gdbinit to work with Lisp_Word (Bug#29957)
That's enough. All the other information in the commit message is clear from the
diff, or is not needed.
