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People have raised an issue about how much explanation a higher-level change descripion should include. It is entirely independent of the other issue we have been discussing, so I have changed the Subject line. > > Cast Lisp_Word value to EMACS_INT, since it might be a pointer now. That statement is helpful explanation, regardless of what else is in the history entry. By comparision, this alternative text > Fix .gdbinit to work with Lisp_Word (Bug#29957) is unhelpfully terse: it makes people work harder to understand the change. It is useful to include a reference to the bug data base. But don't omit anything on the assumption that people have access to that data base. Its contents are not included in a git checkout. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
