Subject: Re: bug#55039: [PATCH] Use VC-relative file names in ChangeLog entries

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:12:30 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:53:29 +0000
> 
> >> --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
> >> +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi
> >> @@ -694,7 +694,10 @@ Log Buffer
> >>  (@code{log-edit-generate-changelog-from-diff}), to generate skeleton
> >>  ChangeLog entries, listing all changed file and function names based
> >>  on the diff of the VC fileset.  Consecutive entries left empty will be
> >> -combined by @kbd{C-q} (@code{fill-paragraph}).
> >> +combined by @kbd{C-q} (@code{fill-paragraph}).  By default the
> >> +inserted file names will just be the files without a path.  If
> >> +@code{diff-add-log-relative-names} is non-nil, a partial path relative
> >> +to the VC root directory will be inserted instead.
> >
> > GNU Coding Standards frown on using "path" for anything but PATH-style
> > directory lists.  Please use "leading directories" or somesuch here,
> > as that's what you mean.
> 
> I've just remove the changes to the manual from my patch.

Why?  That was nowhere near what I intended to say with the above
comments, which were minor.