Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[John Darrington]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 01:25:04PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
     Richard Stallman wrote:
     >If we stop manually maintaining ChangeLog files because version
     >control systems provide information just as good, we should include
     >that information instead of the ChangeLog files.
     
     Yes, and that's a stated part of the proposal: projects must maintain a
     public repository. The repository should publish all the relevant
     version-control information, including commit messages, dates, and
     authors -- all the info that traditionally would appear in ChangeLog
     files.

There are a couple of scripts published (I think one of them is part of gnulib)
which automatically convert a git history, into a ChangeLog file.  If the 
commit messages have been composed thoughtfully,  I believe such ChangeLog files
are indistinguishable from manually maintained ones.   Several Gnu projects
are already creating ChangeLogs this way.

J'



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