From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
joseph@codesourcery.com, pmuldoon@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GIT and CVS
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111014050245.GC18867@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mxd41qu4.fsf@gnu.org>
> The issue is how to
> save the committers the need to compose 2 different logs, one for the
> commit, the other for the ChangeLog. This issue should be resolved by
> the VCS front end in use, like Emacs or whatever people use. When
> such solutions exist, it is no longer an important issue whether to
> keep ChangeLog's in the repo or generate them as needed.
One problem that you are not mentioning is the fact that the ChangeLog
causes a never-ending stream of conflicts when applying patches. This
is because of how things are setup: We keep modifying the file at
the same place. ChangeLogs were interesting at a time when VCS where
limited, but we've abolished them at AdaCore ever since we moved our
GDB development to Git. The cost of maintaining them versus the actual
benefits was just too high.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 19:37 Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 20:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 20:55 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:33 ` DJ Delorie
2011-10-13 21:44 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 21:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 21:51 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:25 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:19 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 22:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 5:56 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 6:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-13 23:03 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:51 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 6:01 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 6:52 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 7:01 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 7:13 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2011-10-14 15:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 15:49 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:51 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 21:59 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 22:08 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-13 22:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 5:03 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-10-14 8:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:14 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-13 23:56 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 6:04 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-13 21:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 10:23 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-10-14 10:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:09 ` Li, Rongsheng
2011-10-14 12:54 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 13:07 ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:32 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-10-14 15:05 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 14:52 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 15:47 ` Jonas Maebe
2011-10-14 16:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-14 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 17:06 ` Matt Rice
2011-10-14 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-11 21:00 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-12 8:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-12 15:30 ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-14 5:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-14 15:38 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-10-14 12:36 ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 15:02 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-14 16:59 ` André Pönitz
2011-10-14 14:58 ` Phil Muldoon
2011-10-14 15:02 ` Paul_Koning
2011-10-16 15:04 ` Ralf Corsepius
2011-10-14 16:10 ` André Pönitz
2011-11-11 22:50 ` Pedro Larroy
2011-11-12 8:28 ` Steinar Bang
2011-11-13 0:05 ` John Hein
2011-11-15 15:02 ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-16 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor
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