ChangeLog entry complexity

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Mar 12 20:29:00 GMT 2013


On 03/11/2013 10:27 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> Any thoughts on keeping the ChangeLog formatting, but just putting it
> in the commit message and generating the ChangeLog from commit
> messages?

No thoughts at all. I see no reason why we couldn't do it.

Are you volunteering?
 
> Other projects have already made that switch and it makes a hell of a
> lot of sense to me.

In my mind the difference is:

git log + ChangeLog = Commit log + structured change log.

vs.

git log = Commit log + structured change log.

There just doesn't seem to be enough difference to pay the cost
of changing.

Cheers,
Carlos.



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