Notes from the version control BOF at the summit

[Matt Austern]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
>> The main serialization problem is, of course, the ChangeLog file.  For
>> most of these systems, it should be possible to write an automatic
>> merge for the ChangeLog file which will do the right thing.
>
> Or generate the ChangeLog automatically from checkin comments.  (The 
> last
> item in Zack's previous wishlist
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-12/msg00444.html>.)

Stupid question: if we have atomic multifile patches, so that you can 
give
a single comment to what's conceptually a single checkin, then what
purpose will the ChangeLog serve?  Won't it just duplicate information
that's already there in the version control system's metadata?

			--Matt