Re: Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges

[Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>]

Yeah, gcc doesn't make a sensible utilisation of cvs, does it ?
At least it's somewhat different from most other projects that use it
that I know.

The proposal of generating the cvs logs from the Changelog is somewhat 
backwards.  It would probably be much, much simpler to generate a ChangeLog
out of cvs commit messages. In fact, this is how other projects usually 
do it. Cvs does yield fairly nice commit messages.  That would solve
one specific problem: all files changed would be automatically mentioned
in the commit message. The format can be tweaked afterwards to be as 
compliant with the Changelog entry as one wishes...

In fact, I would very much prefer having the Changelog match the committed
date, not some other somewhat artificial dates. There are lots of other ways
to refer to a patch, the entry in the gcc-patches archive comes to mind.

And David is quite correct that using the ChangeLog to browse through the
history of one file is a pain... One loses most of the features that make
cvs useful.  For instance, `cvs annotate' is almost useless on gcc, 
since it is very hard to go back from gcc revisions to Changelog entry.

I understand that this is somewhat hard to change, but consider it.
There might be a good reason why other projects are actually USING cvs for
day-to-day work, might there not ? :)