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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.


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