Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Andreas Enge]

Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:44:18AM -0400 schrieb brian via Development of GNU 
Guix and the GNU System distribution.:
> >  - strict adherence to changelog style commit messages without a
> >    clearly worded and documented argument about why it's worth the
> >    effort in 2023. whenever 'C' fails to add an entry to the commit
> >    message in Emacs, i groan out loud.
> Regarding the GNU changelog commits, I really dislike them. They're
> redundant busy-work as far as I'm concerned. And while I'd like to say
> they're no longer necessary, because we have better tooling

As said before, I use them all the time through
   git log | grep "whatever I am looking for"
or the interactive
   git log
then "/" for searching inside the less command; I find it useful to a point
that I have moved to this style for all my coding projects.

So as far as I am concerned, they are tremendously useful. Well, that may
be due to a lack of git knowledge, of course! But while in other projects
I often find I need to look at the content of commits, in Guix it is often
enough to just look at the changelog.

Andreas