Hello, Rich. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:53:00AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It there an easy, automated way to have this inforation on my system(s) > > without extra keystrokes?
[ .... ] > While I do believe the ChangeLogs will show up again for those who > prefer them, I think that taking a bit of time to learn to use git is > going to make your life better in the long haul. I disagree completely. A little time spent on git is time wasted. Only a lot of time spent on git is useful. git is to VCSs as assembler is to programming languages. To use either effectively, you've got to have a complete grasp of the internal logic of git/the processor. This is in stark contrast with, say, Mercurial or CVS, or a language like C. For comparison, the collected man pages of git (collected into an info file) weigh in at 1.9 Mb. For Mercurial, the single man page is just 315k. I speak from bitter experience. > I think that in time people will stop using ChangeLogs. I think people will be using ChangeLogs for as long as they exist. The ChangeLog is a very convenient and useful reference. By comparison, typing in arcane commands to git is a pain, even if you're only going to be doing it once whilst creating a script. > -- > Rich -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
