Re: master cbef1e9 2/3: ; make change-history-commit

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/10/2015 08:41 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Glenn did suggest object
> notes, but as I understand it Emacs VC doesn't support them.

You could bring that up as a feature request, but that'd require at 
least an API proposal, especially since other VCS don't have features 
similar to notes (do they?), but anyway...

> So I went
> with the best easy-enough approach that I could think of, an approach
> based on Emacs's tradition of ChangeLog history files.  If we can think
> of something better, we should switch to it.

...I think the current approach is pretty clever, in how it required 
very few Elisp changes, and still provides the main benefits.