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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
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Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:21:07 +0000 |
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On Mon 07 Mar 2016, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:
>>On 03/07/2016 11:43 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
>>> Let's please take it for granted that everyone who's suggesting to
>>> get rid of ChangeLog files is also assuming that we would, of
>>> course, use the same conventions for writing git commit messages
>>> that we would use for writing ChangeLog entries. (As far as I can
>>> tell, everyone who wants to get rid of ChangeLog files has either
>>> expressed that assumption explicitly or implied it pretty clearly.
>>> )
>>
>>Not so. Many messages in this thread are saying different.
>
> I looked again -- who are these "many"? I don't see any messages from someone
> who both advocates that we get rid of ChangeLogs *and* suggests that we should
> not use the same format for commit messages as we currently do for ChangeLogs.
> (Andy Moreton suggested something about how we could have improved standards
> about what we put in a change description in general, but that's different and
> orthogonal to this discussion.)
>
> Please let me know if I missed a post, though.
For the avoidance of doubt, I think that the changelog format describing
the contents of the diff should not be included in the git commit
message, as it is a pointless duplication of information that the diff
already provides. Let the version control system handle what changed,
and put much more emphasis on describing why the patch exists.
AndyM
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
Andy Moreton <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Karl Fogel, 2016/03/08