Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:52:53 +0600
> Cc: John Wiegley <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > "git log -p" cannot do the job for changes in many types of files.
> > For example, try it on Lisp or Texinfo files.
> 
> I assume you are talking about the function header that is displayed
> in the hunk headers

John was.

> Git can in fact be configured to recognize “functions” differently,
> per file type.

Yes, I know.  But how many people have done that, and how many of them
will be able to cough up the right regex for whatever language they
need?