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Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:58:46 +0200 |
> From: David Engster <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:19:30 +0100
>
> Just go through the log and in your mind strip all the generated
> stuff (like filenames and affected symbols), and see what
> information provided by the *author* actually remains - it's usually
> very little, and often stating the obvious, instead of saying *why*
> something was done.
That's not what ChangeLog is supposed to tell.
> This makes our commit logs mostly useless for actually understanding how
> code evolved.
It's not intended for that. The 'annotate' commands are for that.
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, (continued)
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Bastien, 2014/11/20
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Bastien, 2014/11/20
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, David Engster, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, David Engster, 2014/11/19
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/11/21
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, David Engster, 2014/11/21
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, Stefan Monnier, 2014/11/21
- Re: Generating the ChangeLog files from the commit messages, David Engster, 2014/11/21
- Re: Include necessary git tools in the Emacs distribution?, David Engster, 2014/11/19