From: Nick Burrett <nick@dsvr.net>
To: obrien@NUXI.com
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34s723ka3.fsf@nick.ws.noc.dsvr.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000609085131.P55675@dragon.nuxi.com>
"David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:30:21AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > David> The diff from 1.25 to 1.26 is large enough to explain the change.
> > David> Looking at ``cvs log gengenrtl.c'' I was unable to find any details on
> > David> the "gcc2-ss-010999" branch.
> >
> > What you list above is the CVS entry, not the ChangeLog entry.
> > The entry in ChangeLog.2 says:
> >
> > * Merge from gcc2 snapshot Jan 9, 1999. See FSFChangeLog for
> > details.
>
> Sorry, I was under the impression (from what I've seen in other CVS
> commit messages) that the ChangeLog text is in the commit message. IMHO
> CVS logs are much easier to use to find the notes on a change than the
> ChangeLog's.
>
> GCC ChangeLog's do not use a consistent date format, thus it is time
> consuming to find the entry you are looking for as searching in your
> favorite viewer isn't as good as it could be. Nor does this ChangeLog
> entry contain the name of the modified file as it should. In this case,
> I could not use any of the CVS message text in searching for the
> ChangeLog entry except for the word "Merge".
This would be easily resolvable if in future the ChangeLog date and e-mail
header were included in the CVS commit messages. It would make things
much easier to cross-reference since the CVS date is always going to be
slightly different to the ChangeLog date. I'm not sure if CVSweb would
cope very well with this though.
>
> > Did you check FSFChangeLog (which contains the ChangeLog entries from the
> > gcc2 development
>
> I did not. I forgot that there was a FSFChangeLog vs. just ChangeLog. I
> guess I'm just used to the other projects who's CVS repo I work with.
> There is an emphasis on detail in commit messages to assist people in
> finding out about changes. I'm surprised the message above didn't at
> least tell people to see the FSFChangeLog (and give the applicable date
> range) for details on the changes.
Perhaps it would have been better to include the FSFChangeLog directly
into the ChangeLog under a single entry in the same way that is done for
older branches. It's a bit late in the day for that though.
> > The actual various ChangeLog files are the historical repository, not
> > CVS log entries.
>
> Yes I know. IMHO now that the world has access to the CVS logs, they
> could be better used now.
I think it is much easier to look at a ChangeLog than look at the CVS logs
for individual files. The `cvs log' has to keep on being re-generated,
the ChangeLog is there, fast to access, and provides a good overview
of all files changed, rather than just a few.
Nick.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-09 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-08 12:42 David O'Brien
2000-06-08 15:18 ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-06-09 8:30 ` David Edelsohn
2000-06-09 8:51 ` David O'Brien
2000-06-09 9:13 ` Nick Burrett [this message]
2000-06-09 9:21 ` David O'Brien
2000-06-11 6:38 ` Marc Espie
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-02 18:21 [PATCH] rs6000.c ELF bits inclusion David O'Brien
2001-05-02 20:07 ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-02 20:32 ` David O'Brien
2001-05-02 20:52 ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-03 0:39 ` David O'Brien
2001-05-03 13:17 ` David O'Brien
2001-05-03 16:04 ` David Edelsohn
2001-05-03 19:11 ` David O'Brien
2000-06-18 14:10 Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges Richard Kenner
2000-06-18 12:32 Mike Stump
2000-06-18 11:32 Richard Kenner
2000-06-17 8:41 Richard Kenner
2000-06-18 8:05 ` Martin v. Loewis
1999-09-14 19:32 FreeBSD 4.0 Wes Morgan
1999-09-14 20:08 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-15 2:00 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-14 22:34 ` Loren James Rittle
1999-09-14 23:00 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-14 23:14 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 0:25 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15 0:56 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 1:21 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-15 1:40 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 2:23 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-15 3:11 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 3:52 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-20 3:58 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Andreas Schwab
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 1:17 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 9:23 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15 10:24 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-16 14:48 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Richard Henderson
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-20 4:20 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-21 6:33 ` The USER_H issue Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02 ` FreeBSD 4.0 Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 4:34 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-20 9:26 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 9:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-20 10:17 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 10:38 ` Richard Earnshaw
1999-09-20 11:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-20 11:39 ` Horst von Brand
1999-09-20 11:49 ` Chris G. Demetriou
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Chris G. Demetriou
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Horst von Brand
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Richard Earnshaw
1999-09-23 8:51 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-23 9:13 ` Pending Projects Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02 ` FreeBSD 4.0 Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15 2:00 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-15 2:25 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 2:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
[not found] ` <37DFAD27.3E6A25E3@datadesign.com>
[not found] ` <199909152042.PAA29374@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
1999-09-15 14:26 ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-15 17:10 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-16 1:46 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-16 6:57 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-16 7:41 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-16 7:55 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Marc Espie
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Bruce Korb
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` David O'Brien
1999-09-15 1:59 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Zack Weinberg
1999-09-15 7:42 ` Wes Morgan
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Wes Morgan
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Loren James Rittle
1999-09-30 18:02 ` Wes Morgan
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