Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

Samuel Tardieu sam@rfc1149.net
Sun Dec 2 10:52:00 GMT 2007


On  2/12, Andreas Schwab wrote:

| That is supposed to be written in a comment.  The change log entry
| should describe _what_ is being changed, so that you can find out when a
| particular change was made.

This should be the job of the VCS, e.g. "svn log" and "svn blame".
Moreover, ChangeLogs are organized by directories. You have to look
at the "svn log" to see if a test corresponds to a code change and
identify it.



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