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Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- From: chrubis at suse dot cz
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com, normalperson at yhbt dot net, carlos at redhat dot com, pasky at ucw dot cz, roland at hack dot frob dot com, neleai at seznam dot cz, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:52:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
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Hi!
> > ChangeLog entries provide a useful level of description of changes
>
> Which can be more effectively reproduced, with the searcher's desired
> level of detail, using the source code control system we use.
With all the respect I think that ChangeLogs files are relict from times
where software was distributed as tarballs on tapes and floppy discs.
Today everybody can checkout the git repository and get the information
firsthand.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz