From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17048 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2007 00:30:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 17040 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2007 00:30:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:30:52 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lB30UMXV023763; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:30:22 -0500 Received: from post-office.corp.redhat.com (post-office.corp.redhat.com [10.11.254.111]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lB30UMIB018903; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:30:22 -0500 Received: from greed.delorie.com (vpn-14-6.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.6]) by post-office.corp.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB30UJvA009124; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:30:21 -0500 Received: from greed.delorie.com (greed.delorie.com [127.0.0.1]) by greed.delorie.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB30UIQF024733; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:30:18 -0500 Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id lB30UImY024730; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:30:18 -0500 To: Robert Dewar Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages References: <20071202065558.S8303@dair.pair.com> <47533F95.5080608@adacore.com> From: DJ Delorie Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:30:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <47533F95.5080608@adacore.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 Robert Dewar writes: > I don't see much point, since a diff can always easily tell > you *what* was changed. A changelog does help recreate a change *set* though, since CVS is lacking such a thing. Thus, the CL helps you determine what files to diff. True that SVN solves part of that, but SVN is not universal.