Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/09/2016 10:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 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.

This doesn't address the point that the old system had real problems 
even when I wasn't doing merges (which is my normal mode of operation). 
And Dmitry reported problems even when using git-merge-changelog.

> It's not low-priority work when I need an accurate accord of what 
> happened. Then it's very high priority for me. 

When I want an accurate record of what happened, I want to see what was 
actually committed, warts and all. If people start using git-replace to 
change old commit messages, I'll probably start using 
--no-replace-objects to see what the original commit looked like. I 
realize your style differs. Still, it's not clear that it's worth 
inflicting significant pain on other developers in order to support that 
style.