Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog

[Richard Stallman]

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I'm sorry it took me so long to read this.

The example you chose involves changes only clearly inside the
brace-pairs of the entities.  That is the easy case; naturally it
works.

Here's an example that diff -p does not handle right.

*** old.c       2018-06-03 20:43:53.505781957 -0400
--- old2.c      2018-06-03 20:44:40.776000965 -0400
*************** union that
*** 17,23 ****
  static struct this foo;
  
  int
! main (int argc, char **argv)
  {
    /* A comment */
    /* Another comment */
--- 17,23 ----
  static struct this foo;
  
  int
! main (int argc, char **argv, char **env)
  {
    /* A comment */
    /* Another comment */

Making a substitute for -p that will be correct essentially all the
time is not rocket science.  People who want stop manually writing
about the entities changed, please do that work
to give us a real and full automatic substitute.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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