Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Nicholas Nethercote <njn at csse dot unimelb dot edu dot au>]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Commit logs are basically invisible;
>
> That's just a (fixable) problem in your coding setup. In other
> projects it is very common to use tools like cvs annotate / cvsps /
> git blame / git log / etc. to find the reasons for why code is the way
> it is. In fact in several editors these can be functions on hot
> keys. Programming is hard enough as is without ignoring such valuable
> information sources. Don't do it.

I didn't say you cannot or should not use these tools.  But a good comment 
on a piece of code sure beats a good commit message, which must be looked at 
separately, and can be fragmented over multiple commits, etc.

Nick