Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 00:30:00 GMT 2007


Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> I don't see much point, since a diff can always easily tell
> you *what* was changed.

A changelog does help recreate a change *set* though, since CVS is
lacking such a thing.  Thus, the CL helps you determine what files to
diff.

True that SVN solves part of that, but SVN is not universal.



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