Re: Manual merges.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Should I perhaps file a bug that the ChangeLog file should be generated?
> That would be a good idea in the long(ish) term.  In fact, I pesonally see
> ChangeLogs as a relic of the pre-VCS era; they were surely VERY useful to
> track regressions and bugs and backward-incompatibilites back then, but
> today that we have the "real" project history in the VCS repo, and lots of
> tools to view and analyze it, the ChangeLogs (as well as the GCS rules to
> write them) are becoming more and more of a nuisance.

ChangeLogs may seem like a nuisance but many more people have access 
to source tarballs than network-based version control systems.  It has 
been shown time and time again that version control systems 
come and go (or move) while the source code lives on.

It is typical that ChangeLog messages are considerably higher grade 
and more detailed than commit messages.  However, the version control 
system also offers capabilities (e.g. change sets) that the ChangeLog 
does not offer.

Bob
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