Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Nikolaus Rath]

Hi Eli,

Please do not Cc me on replies, I am reading the list.


On Mar 11 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:53:32 -0800
>> 
>> > This solution should also support merging from the release branch to
>> > master and cherry-picks in the opposite direction, where (AFAIK) SHA1
>> > checksum is not necessarily left intact.
>> 
>> I don't think *any* solution can support cherry-picks without extra
>> manual work. Even if you keep the ChangeLog file under version control
>> and edit it by hand, you have to cherry-pick the original commit plus
>> the later commit that updated the ChangeLog.
>
> ChangeLog is updated in the same commit as the code, so cherry-picking
> brings them both to the other branch.  Or maybe I misunderstand what
> you mean by "the later commit"?

We are talking about the case were the ChangeLog entry / original commit
message was incorrect and need to be corrected later (in the "later
commit").

Best,
-Nikolaus

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