Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

["Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org>]

On Dec 25, 2007 1:57 PM, Tim Josling <tejgcc@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 20:54 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Dec  3, 2007, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) wrote:
> >
> > > In my view, ChangeLog is mostly "write-only" from a developer's
> > > perspective.  It's a document that the GNU project requires us to
> > produce
> > > for
> >
> > ... a good example of compliance with the GPL:
> >
> >   5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.
> >
> >     a) The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified
> >     it, and giving a relevant date.
> >
>
> (Minor quibble) As copyright owner of GCC, the FSF is not bound by the
> conditions of the licence it grants in the same way as licencees are
> bound. So I don't think this provision in itself would mandate that
> those who have copyright assignments to the FSF record their changes.
>
> I don't hear anyone arguing that people should not record what they
> changes and when. The question is whether it is sufficient.
>
> I just started using git locally, and I keep thinking it would be really
> great to have something like "git blame" for gcc.

svn already has blame :)