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Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:55:17 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:32:44 -0800
>
> > That cost is much lower than any of the alternatives proposed so far,
> > including the current arrangement with ChangeLog.2. It worked for years.
>
> I'm afraid we'll have to disagree on costs. The old way of doing things
> was a constant irritation to me and to others.
Your opinion on this needs to be taken with a grain of salt, since you
never tried to install git-merge-changelog. Without it, I agree with
you that ChangeLog merge conflicts are very irritating. But that's
exactly why git-merge-changelog was written.
> >> Regardless of the approach taken, there is also a cost to
> >> sprucing up the historical record
> > Since this is regardless of the approach, it shouldn't affect the
> > decision in this matter.
>
> No, they're still related. If sprucing up ChangeLogs is low-priority
> work that distracts us from other things, then it's not advantageous to
> adopt a technical approach merely on the grounds that the approach makes
> it easier to spruce up ChangeLogs.
It's not low-priority work when I need an accurate accord of what
happened. Then it's very high priority for me.
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, (continued)
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, John Wiegley, 2016/03/12
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs,
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- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/03/10
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/09
- Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09