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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
> If all the changelog entry says is something like
>
> (xyz): new function
>
> I don't see much point, since a diff can always easily tell
> you *what* was changed.
The point is that, by just looking at the ChangeLog, you can tell when
xyz was introduced and by whom. I've used that quite a number of
times. Moreover, as was pointed out, when you have a source
distribution, you don't get the commit logs, just the ChangeLog.