Re: Workflow to accumulate individual changes?

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:21, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

> ChangeLog entries and commit messages serve a different purpose.
> ChangeLog entries describe the "physical" changes, a commit message the
> "logical" change.  That is, the commit message describes the changeset
> on a higher level than the ChangeLog entries.  As such it does not make
> sense to repeat the ChangeLog entries in the commit message.

We have plenty of ChangeLog entries that describe both, because it is
(or it was, with CVS) much easier/faster to look at the ChangeLog than
the cvs log. And most projects do survive withouth ChangeLogs, by
using the commit logs, and having a good interface to the VCS to make
the diffs easy to access. I think your distinction is theoretically
sound, but as a policy difficult to implement.

    Juanma