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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- From: Robert Kiesling <kiesling at earthlink dot net>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:26:44 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
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> > FWIW, I agree completely - I've never found ChangeLogs useful, I hate
> > writing them, and I think the linux-kernel guys these days generally have
> > much better checkin messages than we do.
>
> I guess nobody really loves writing ChangeLog entries, but in my opinion there
> are quite effective "executive summaries" for the patches and helpful to the
> reader/reviewer. Please let's not throw the baby with the bath's water.
If there's a mechanism to filter checkin messages to ChangeLog summaries,
I would be happy to use it - in cases of multiple packages, especially, it's
important to know what changes were made, when, and when the changes propagated
through packages and releases, and where they got to, occasionally. Anybody
know of a useful, built-in mechanism for this task?
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