Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >              > o   cpp suitable for source code in the C and C++ 
languages.
  > > 
  > > Is there one for Emacs Lisp?
  > > 
  > > Is there one for Bison input?

  > Those aren't mentioned in the gitattributes manpage.

For files written in languages that don't have reliable code for finding
the entity names, finding them via the VCS is definitely no substitute for
listing them explicitly in the history.

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