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Re: How far should we trust ChangeLog attribution dates?
> My secret desire is that once we get this done we would drop these
> silly ChangeLogs. Although I'm not a kernel developer, I kind of like
> the Linux kernel style, where the commit msg contains a reasonably
> in-depth motivation for the change, sort of like the email message one
> sends to gcc-patches when introducing a patch (in fact, if one uses
> git format-patch + git send-email this kind of workflow is supported
> out-of-the-box). I find that a lot more useful than a screenful of
> "Likewise". YMMV.
The point of the "likewise" is to show which functions changed. I
think that's at least as important as the detailed motivation for the change.