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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Ben Elliston <bje at au1 dot ibm dot com>
Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Daniel Berlin <dannyb at google dot com>
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:41:32 -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> <m3k5nufn7h.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <1196896524.12541.3.camel@localhost>

Ben Elliston wrote:

Something else that hasn't been raised is that ChangeLogs can be
revised.  We often see people making mistakes with their ChangeLog
entries, but since the ChangeLog is versioned, they can revise it.  If
you screw up a commit message, it's much harder to fix it (and a purist
might argue that to do so would be destroying revision history).


What we do with Ada is to allow *additions* to an existing revision
history entry, but not modifications of what is already there.

References:
- Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Samuel Tardieu
- Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Diego Novillo
- Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Ben Elliston

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