On 27-10-2011 00:13:41 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Fabian Groffen schrieb: > > On 26-10-2011 23:03:39 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > >> Fabian Groffen schrieb: > >>> You can see it has been removed, but you typically want to know why. > >>> That's the idea of the ChangeLog file. > >> > >> One of the arguments for logging everything in ChangeLog was that > >> extracting this kind information from CVS can be cumbersome. So, I would > >> not agree with "typically". > > > > I do not see your point. Does my sentence change for you if you remove > > the "typically"? > > If the reason why you want ChangeLogs is avoiding having to get the > information about commit activity from CVS, then the proposal to make > exaclty that the minimal ChangeLog entry seems reasonable. > > If in addition you always want to know about the motivation for the > commit, then it won't be sufficient I guess. But based on the previous > discussion on mandatory ChangeLogs I have not gotten the impression that > this was typically called for. I still don't see your point, sorry. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level