Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Richard Kenner]

> I'm not sure people will want to drop ChangeLogs anytime soon.  I don't 
> find them all that useful, but I *have* used them extensively when doing 
> archeology.  It gives you the initial thread to pull when finding out 
> about changes.
> 
> What I *do* miss a lot is a an easier way to link from the ChangeLog 
> entry into the email message explaining the whys and hows of a change. 
> In this respect, the comment in the code is not enough.  The comment 
> explains what the code does today, it does not (and should not) explain 
> the history of that piece of code.  Otherwise, comments would soon grow 
> to useless proportions.

I agree completely with all of that.