Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Andi Kleen]

Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:


> recent ChangeLog entry in gcc/ChangeLog is:

>From my understanding the gcc changelogs serve two purposes these days:

- Force the submitter to read (or rather speed read) the patch again
before sending it out.  
- Serve as a "hash key" to search the gcc-patches archives for the 
real changelog.

The second could be solved far better in many obvious ways, but it's
unclear how to replace the first. Linux kernel doesn't have a solution
for it.

-Andi