Regarding the abandoning of ChangeLog files: There is an interesting
thread right now about this topic in the emacs-devel mailing list.
Attached you can find one of the messages, and I agree with Eli.
However, other people might think differently...
Werner
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> From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:31:39 +0100
> Cc: Michael Albinus <[email protected]>,
> Thierry Volpiatto <[email protected]>
>
> I usually write patches on a branch and rebase them when they are ready to be
> pushed. This always causes merge conflicts for the ChangeLog. (Maybe [1]
> could help a bit.)
There should be no merge conflicts with ChangeLog files. I see an
absolute zero of them. git-merge-changelog and the changelog_merge
plugin in bzr make this not an issue.
> E.g., GNU Octave replaced ChangeLog with an auto-generated ChangeLog from
> commit messages and they seem to be quite happy with that solution.
I've seen a couple of projects that eliminated ChangeLogs. In every
single case, the result was a drastic deterioration in the quality of
the commit log information.
> I know the topic has been discussed several times and it seems a bit
> pointless
> to start the discussion again. But in my opinion ChangeLogs are an even
> bigger issue than the VC because at least I can work around the latter by
> using git-bzr.
As pointed out above, you should be able to resolve the former as
well, in no time.
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