sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Thu Mar 18 09:48:23 GMT 2021
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:31:47 +0000
> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
>
> > IME "git log" and "git blame" have shortcomings when used for
> > forensics, and having a ChangeLog-style list of changes helps overcome
> > that in many important use cases.
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> I'd love to hear more about these many important use cases as this
> might help me improve my workflow. I can't recall ever referring to
> the ChangeLogs to help track down a bug, so I'm worried I might be
> missing out on some excellent techniques here.
>
> I'm always keen to learn!
I'm okay with discussing this, but the comment up-thread to the effect
that I'd better let the sleeping dogs lie turned me off to some
extent. I don't want to appear as someone who forces an unwanted
discussion on the community.
But if this is a welcome subject, I'd be happy to share my experience,
FWIW.
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