Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However with the proliferation of public access CVS (and other) source
> repositories for at least the "freeware" segment I'm hoping to see fewer
> and fewer folks distributing ChangeLog files.
One of the problems with abandoning ChangeLog files in favor of the commit
messages in a revision control system is that ChangeLogs have this really
valuable grouping property when written well. One change is one ChangeLog
entry even when it crosses multiple files, and there's often some extra
meta-information noted there.
You can kind of do this with CVS, but CVS logs are fundamentally per-file.
Either you include information about files other than that particular file
in the log message so that you can have the entire description of the
change or you end up doing somewhat difficult breaking up of the change
description between the multiple log files. And there isn't really any
one place to go look to see the whole change in one summary.
There's a lot to be said for the more unified format of ChangeLog files.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
