ChangeLog entry complexity

[Jeff Law]

On 03/12/2013 02:28 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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?
No way.  As always, I'm buried.  If I ever get my head out, I'll be 
hacking GCC bits or at least trying to convince GCC to switch to GIT and 
use autogenerated ChangeLogs.

> 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.
By autogenerating, you simply don't have to mess with the ChangeLog 
anymore.   Dates & authors come directly from git, no more ChangeLog 
merging, etc.

Jeff