Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

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Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

From: David Engster

Subject: Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages

Date: 2014年11月21日 18:21:06 +0100

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Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: 2014年11月21日 17:19:30 +0100
>> 
>> Just go through the log and in your mind strip all the generated
>> stuff (like filenames and affected symbols), and see what
>> information provided by the *author* actually remains - it's usually
>> very little, and often stating the obvious, instead of saying *why*
>> something was done.
>
> That's not what ChangeLog is supposed to tell.
We're in violent agreement here.
>> This makes our commit logs mostly useless for actually understanding how
>> code evolved.
>
> It's not intended for that. The 'annotate' commands are for that.
Yes. As I've written: we should improve the output of 'l' in an
annotated file from the Emacs repo: commit logs should tell why
something was done.
Anyway, I'm repeating myself, let's just disagree and drop this. It's
not like this is gonna change anytime soon.
-David

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