Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/09/2016 10:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I do use "git annotate" at first, but it will only show the last
> commit that changed the code you are investigating, and I find this
> too frequently to be some reformatting or other similar cleanup that
> is not really what I want.

On the other hand, region-history will show you all commits that touched 
a given region. And you'll have to page through all of them if the 
interesting change happened long ago.

> Then going back in history with "git
> annotate" is inconvenient, so "git log -L" is better.

I find `a' very convenient.

> In any case, the startup times of 'annotate' and 'log -L' are
> comparable, and both are non-negligible.

Sure, but grepping through all NEWS or ChangeLog files doesn't happen 
instantly either.

> > > This request is unreasonable.  If nothing else, it will make the bar
> > > for contributing higher, not lower.  The information is recorded in
> > > the bug discussion, and there's no need to reproduce it in the log
> > > message.
> >
> > We do encourage that, actually, though not require (bar for
> > contributing, etc). This can be especially useful when the issue is
> > not-to-complex, but the bug discussion is long.
> >
> > Mentioned near "rationale for a change" in CONTRIBUTE.
>
> Right, but this discussion is about the requirements, not about the
> stuff for which one gets extra bonus points.

The arguments started with "ChangeLogs take a long time to write", but 
somehow mutated into "committers don't put the information I'd want into 
the entries".