[Pm-utils] Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] Generate ChangeLog on demand.

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Forgot to CC the mailing list.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>
> Date: 09.03.2008 15:14
> Subject: Re: [Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/1] Generate ChangeLog on demand.
> To: Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>
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> 
> 2008/3/6, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Since git has very fast log creation aand we imported the entire revision
>  >  history from CVS, we can generate ChangeLog on demand instead of having to
>  >  track it.
> 
> 
> Problem is, a generated Changelog will never be as clean as a hand written
> one.  It will contain a lot of noise and be less well formatted.

Otoh changelogs are redundant in the presence of decent commit logs and a
source of merge conflicts. As long as everyone realises the commit messages
are important a generated ChangeLog is just as good or even better then a
hand-crafted one.

  Sjoerd
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