ChangeLogging commits to CVS

Thomas Hellström unichrome at shipmail.org
Tue Dec 14 02:20:53 PST 2004


> More or less by accident I came across commits to the X.Org
> tree that have not been properly ChangeLogged.
>
> When we created this repository we made a - yet unwritten - rule
> that every commit (maybe with the exception of simple typo fixes)
> need to be ChangeLogged properly in the topmost ChangeLog file.
>
> This is to ensure we can easily track changes to the tree back to
> when they took place and who made them. CVS itself is file oriented
> so it is difficult to track which changes went into the tree as
> a whole.
>
> Furthermore the text added to ChangeLog file should also go into
> the log of the commit itself.
>

Should the file and function list added by prepare-changelog.pl also go
into the commit log or just to the ChangeLog?

/Thomas





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