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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>
Cc: Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Daniel Berlin <dannyb at google dot com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:19:40 -0500
Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <47543DE8.3010003@google.com> <475440E8.4000109@t-online.de>

Bernd Schmidt wrote:

I'd much prefer the text from the mail message be repeated in the commit
log.  Removes one step of indirection both when writing and reading the log.

I guess that could work, but that wouldn't give a way into the history for the change. Several times there is a post-mortem discussion on the patch, leading to more patches.

Diego.

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