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[Orgmode] A request: Moving away from ChangeLog
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John Wiegley |
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[Orgmode] A request: Moving away from ChangeLog |
Date: |
Fri, 21 May 2010 05:06:04 -0400 |
The Emacs ChangeLog is a file which predates the existence of freely available,
project-wide version control. It was a way to see, in one place, the stream of
changes occurring in a project -- something which RCS could not do for you.
However, in this modern era of project-wide, atomic commits, the ChangeLog is
not only an archaism, but is a continuous source of merge conflicts. For
example, when I reverted Russell's latest change -- a one-liner that was minor
in the extreme -- I had to do with a merge conflict in lisp/ChangeLog.
With a system like Git, and properly written commits, you can produce a
ChangeLog at any time with "git log". You even see a ChangeLog for just one
file, or a directory with "git log --follow PATH". This completes supersedes
any need for a ChangeLog file, and has led me to abandon the use of ChangeLogs
in all the projects I maintain.
I would request we do so for Org-mode as well, unless there is some compelling
reason to keep this file.
John
- [Orgmode] A request: Moving away from ChangeLog,
John Wiegley <=
- [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, John Wiegley, 2010/05/21
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Carsten Dominik, 2010/05/21
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, John Wiegley, 2010/05/21
- [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Tassilo Horn, 2010/05/21
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, John Wiegley, 2010/05/21
- [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Bernt Hansen, 2010/05/21
- [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, John Wiegley, 2010/05/21
- [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Bernt Hansen, 2010/05/21
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Eric Schulte, 2010/05/21
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog, Carsten Dominik, 2010/05/21