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Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without V
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired) |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:25:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[ The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has
been posted to news:gmane.emacs.devel as well. ]
On Thu, Jan 03 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file more important. The
>> reason I dropped my opposition to multi-file commits is that I
>> realized that the info I used to get by looking at a CVS log, I could get
>> from the ChangeLog file instead with a suitable selective visibility
>> mode.
>
> From what I can see, recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file less
> important because it can be automatically regenerated from the
> commit logs. And by "automatically regenerated" I really mean that the
> output is just as good, or even identical.
Currently our ChangeLogs contain information about the contributor
which is not necessarily identical to the committer. Would a recent
VCS hold this information in a form that an automatically regenerated
ChangeLog contains it too?
Bye, Reiner.
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