Re: changelog format

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
() Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:09:34 +0100

   thanks for having worked on this!  I like you proposal very
   much, with only a couple of nits nit (find them below).

I appreciate your patience.

   > A link to another entry [...].  We recommend this
   > over using a version control system commit identifier
   >
   I'd really, really like to see "in addition to" instead of "over"
   used her, since VCS commit identifiers have at least an important
   advantage of their own: they make it immediate for the reader to
   refer to the linked entry, instead of having to rely on (say)
   "git log --grep" or "git log --since=... --until=...".  This is
   even more true for GUI interfaces to the VCS, where VCS commit
   identifiers might be automatically turned in clickable links.

I agree that such conveniences are very compelling.  My fear
is that people would use VCS commit identifiers exclusively;
saying "in addition to" is not strong enough.  Any other ideas?

   I think it would be nice to also ad another example with a slightly
   different style.  I propose this slightly edited version of the commit
   message for the GNU coreutils commit 'c592a00f': [...]

Good idea.  What is the ChangeLog header for this?  Can i assume:
  2011-12-08  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
as per ‘git show c592a00f’?  (Meta-comment: This extra step shows
how generated ChangeLog files are inconvenient to casual readers.)

I note that there is more than one paragraph, so i guess i'll change
the "short paragraph" to "paragraph(s)".