Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> 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.

The comment *in the code* is lacking, other than that I don't
see much point in your rant; it's all been said before, for one.
It usually takes a while for newcomers to understand the
process, in particular the what-not-why of ChangeLogs... ;)

brgds, H-P