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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Using VC for change descriptions |
Date: | Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:10:44 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
On 01/02/2018 11:21 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
You overexagerate the amount of time it takes, it definitly does not double it, it takes only a few seconds for a small change, and tops half a minute for a large one like the one you provided as an example.
I don't think Joseph is exaggerating. I too have experienced situations where the ChangeLog entry took longer to write than the useful work. It certainly takes longer than "half a minute" for me to write a ChangeLog entry for one of my typical patches.
This is an issue even for short and trivial patches. For example, for this one:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f8b4e87d5d4f57954b50677add76ce5136211dc1I guess that it took me a couple of minutes to write and test the patch, and about the same time to write the ChangeLog entry. Although I could type faster when editing the ChangeLog entry than when coding, I had to type a lot more stuff, and Emacs's assistance for editing ChangeLog files did not help me much.
For longer patches, I often do not follow the ChangeLog guidelines, and nobody cares because it would be a waste of my time and theirs to do so. Here's an example:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=63b04c11d530f4a6a41f112d1b3ba1ed1eb81195
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