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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
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> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:31:47 +0000
> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > IME "git log" and "git blame" have shortcomings when used for
> > forensics, and having a ChangeLog-style list of changes helps overcome
> > that in many important use cases.
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> I'd love to hear more about these many important use cases as this
> might help me improve my workflow.  I can't recall ever referring to
> the ChangeLogs to help track down a bug, so I'm worried I might be
> missing out on some excellent techniques here.
> 
> I'm always keen to learn!

I'm okay with discussing this, but the comment up-thread to the effect
that I'd better let the sleeping dogs lie turned me off to some
extent.  I don't want to appear as someone who forces an unwanted
discussion on the community.

But if this is a welcome subject, I'd be happy to share my experience,
FWIW.