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Re: Hash out a solution for ChangeLog/NEWS at the Cauldron?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, carlos at redhat dot com, roland at hack dot frob dot com, joseph at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:34:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: Hash out a solution for ChangeLog/NEWS at the Cauldron?
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- References: <20150804173912 dot GC2504 at spoyarek dot pnq dot redhat dot com> <20150805040259 dot GF7147 at vapier>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> i'm still strongly in favor of getting rid of ChangeLogs entirely. i have
> yet to find a scenario where the git commit itself did not contain all the
> details that i needed, or that really the ChangeLog file itself provided
> literally any value at all. in a historical context (CVS), it might have
> made more sense, but that hasn't been the case for years.
A simple text file is much easier to search through.
Andreas.
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