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Re: Moving to an alternate VCS

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:38PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | It might make the most sense to go the auto-generation route, and then
> 
> ChangeLogs entries, when properly done (by people like RTH or Roger
> Sayle), carry highly valuable information about what the purpose of a
> change-set is; not just the code.  I'm of the opinion that that source
> of information should be preserved, when and if we switch to another
> VCS. 

I agree; the point is that the ChangeLog entry and the SVN checkin comment
that describes the revision can be one and the same (which would mean that
all information that normally appears in a ChangeLog is present in the svn
checkin comment, in the standard format).
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