Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant.

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

>> The "changelog entries are like an undo list" is a WTF, to me this is what
>> `patch -R` is for...
>
> Not quite, because the change log shows the language-level view of the
> changes,

I don't understand "language-level view of the changes"

> It makes it easy to answer questions such as “when did we change this
> function?”, “when did we introduce that variable”, etc.

This looks suspicously close to *-blame functionality, looks script
(or any other
automated way) -material to me.

Personally I've never done this by searching changelogs (and here I show my
lack of participation in GNU-standardized projects)...

> I see.  The commit title is definitely what you’re interested in here.

Yes, but this is a layered (recursive) approach, I dig a level when the previous
one looked interesting, or backtrack. This allows to cheaply skip irrelevant
material (with a small miss rate).

> I understand it can be frustratingly short

No, for my usage it's totally useless, I never had to search that way, way less
efficient that a git blame (+ refinements)

> but then again it’s no substitute for the full discussions or code 
> explanations
[...]
> AIUI Linux-style commit logs are not change logs, but explanations.  I
> still strongly believe that explanations believe in code.

Let's agree to disagree

Cheers

-- 
Vincent Legoll