Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

"Tony Lewis" <address@hidden> writes:

> Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
>
>> changelogs are crap, not useful to anyone, that is my opinion.
>
> That assumes that everyone interested in the wget source is actively using 
> git. However, many people work from the distribution and the only 
> documentation they receive is in the changelog.
>
> I have no objection to using the commit message to automatically generate the 
> changelog when that makes sense, but that doesn't mean the changelog is not 
> useful.
>
> Tony


I was a bit harsh but if it were possible I would prefer to drop
Changelogs altogether.  I am sure there are people who find them useful,
but I think they are very few and they can be easily helped to start
using "git clone" and "git log" if they are interested in the
development history of wget.

We will still need to provide a more-or-less changelog formatted commit
message for these tools, but that is surely better than having to deal
with merge conflicts almost for any commit.

Giuseppe