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

[pinoaffe]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:44:18AM -0400 schrieb brian via Development of GNU 
> Guix and the GNU System distribution.:
>> 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.

I also quite like the commit messages, they've allowed me to find things
that I couldn't have found using `git blame`