Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Joseph Myers]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:

>   > And I explained in a followup that your version was not actually an 
>   > improvement as it put the focus on incidental use of identifiers with the 
>   > same name in different files, which just takes things further away from 
> an 
>   > understanding of the actual nature of the change
> 
> Would you please send me that followup again?  I am having trouble finding it.

That's 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2017-07/msg00009.html>.  
The relevant part is:

    > This is what I would have done, you have only 8 specific changes
    > touching multiple files, there is no need to repeat them several times
    > and one could even reduce this a bit further by merging the file lines
    > into one.  You can even skip the "Likewise." part completely.

    I don't think this is any better.  If anything it obscures the essential 
    nature of the change, which is very much "take each relevant file, apply 
    this class of fixes to it", where links between identifiers of the same 
    name in different files are entirely incidental.

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Joseph S. Myers
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