On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > This is what I do with my projects now. Guix and Emacs do this well > too, for example. To Richard's point: while Git provides a wealth of > information and tools to process it, it sucks looking over diffs when > you want a high-level overview of what changed.
It's important to have commit messages that provide that high-level overview. The problem I'm concerned with is that the ChangeLog format forces descriptions at the level of individual files and named entities therein, and for many changes that's not a high-level overview, it's a low-level repetition of the diffs in English, which is less useful than either the proper high-level overview that also has to be written, or the diffs themselves for the details of exactly what changed in any given place. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected]
