ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[NightStrike]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:48 PM NightStrike <nightstrike@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:28 AM, Richard Biener
>> <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:13 PM Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > They are definitely useful in my day-to-day work when tracking down changes
>> >> > given I can easily grep them.
>> >>
>> >> Seconded.
>> >>
>> >> > I think that any change here should be _after_ we've switched to git
>> >> > (finally).
>> >>
>> >> Well, git doesn't make anything easier than subversion in this area so...
>> >
>> > I was told there's git grep which may be used to grep commit logs?
>>
>> svn log | grep   ?
>
> Given that puts load on the server (and is also slow) I'd rather avoid
> that, but yes.

Addendum:  svn log --search is quite a lot faster, has minimal server
side load, and has the added benefit of searching the entire commit
message as an entity vs grep being line-oriented.  Of course, nothing
is as fast as querying a local file, but I'm just mentioning it for
completeness, as the --search option to log is often overlooked.