On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:01:09AM -0700, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Mike Hommey<mh+web...@glandium.org> wrote: > > I've always wondered, in the days of atomic commits and advanced SCM, why > > fill changelogs at all ? Except for CVS, RCS or SCCS, any SCM already > > stores the log of changes. Keeping a Changelog in the SCM is both a > > duplication of information and a stick to beat yourself when you > > cherry-pick or revert changes, or merge branches. > > When I've ask similar questions in the past, I've been told: > > 1) Changelogs are easier to search / archive / fix up than commit log > messages.
For search and archive, nothing prevents you to generate ChangeLogs for that purpose. > 2) We can review the Changelog messages using bugzilla's review > system, but it's harder to review the commit log message. Not if the patch contains the commit message in its header, like git or mercurial do. Creating a script for svn, if it doesn't already exist, wouldn't be too hard, too. Mike _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
