Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Stefan Monnier]

> We're not talking about removing the existing ChangeLog files.

Indeed.

> We're talking about what should be put into commit messages from here
> on out.  That is an ongoing and nontrivial maintenance effort, and if
> we can ease the burden of writing commit messages then that will be
> a win.

I'm not particularly concerned about "easing the burden", but rather
about improving the quality: when the commit message just paraphrases
the diff, the commit message is not very useful and would benefit from
being rephrased so as to give more information about the
intention/motivation behind the change (information not readily
available from the diff).


        Stefan