On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > They cannot be generated by a computer. Your remainder points do not > address how ChangeLog entries are a bad thing, rather they show that
They are a bad thing because they force writing a description of a changeset at a per-file, per-named-entity level, whether or not a decomposition into those pieces is a good way to describe that particular changeset, and because they force writing such a description that concentrates on information that can readily be obtained by reading the associated patch, which is the exact opposite of what a good commit message should be concentrating on, namely information at the logical level about the change as a whole and the reasons for it, that complements the change itself, so helping the reader in understanding the patch in its proper context, rather than duplicating it. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
