Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> writes:

> Diego Novillo wrote:
> > The history is something one finds on the mailing lists.  So, my
> > proposal is to add a commit-time check that makes sure that the commit
> > message contains a URL to the message describing the change.  IIUC, such
> > check shouldn't be hard to implement (Dan?)
> 
> I'd much prefer the text from the mail message be repeated in the commit
> log.  Removes one step of indirection both when writing and reading the log.
> 
> Of course, that way it's not something that can easily be enforced
> automatically.

I would find the URL to be very useful, because it links to the
discussion.  Reasonably often the last e-mail message is something
like "Does this version look OK?"

Ian