On 11:05 Mon 12 Jan , AllenJB wrote: > In my opinion the cvs commit log and the ChangeLog serve 2 different > purposes. The cvs log is for developers while the ChangeLog is for > users. While the cvs log will likely just want to explain what change > was made, the ChangeLog should explain why it was made.
So if you want to know both, you need to look in 2 places? That doesn't seem very nice to me. Also in a distributed VCS, we'd want to generate ChangeLogs from the commit logs to avoid all kinds of annoying conflict resolution and remove redundant information. > PS. I know about index2.xml - but that doesn't look like it's going to > be the main front page any time soon at the moment, which is a real > shame because it has some awesome changes. I need to write up an announcement for the changes, then Xavier will flip the switch. Think days not weeks. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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