ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Richard Biener]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:04 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
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> > However, even if you could "git log --grep" the commit messages, I assume your
> > current use is grepping for function names and such, right? Being able to grep
> > a commit message won't solve that problem, or am I missing something?
>
> If you know what function and file you're interested in, you can use git
> log -L to find changes to it (I've used that in the GCC context before),
> or of course other tools such as git blame.

Does -L "work" with codebases that become more and more C++?  I do realize
that grepping ChangeLogs gets more difficult here as well given there are no
clear rules how to "mangle" C++ function/entity names in ChangeLog entries.

Fortunately we're still mostly C ....

Richard.

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