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Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:39:19 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> No, we should expect people to learn whatever tools are appropriate for
> working on the projects they are developing. It's not the place of the
> GNU Coding Standards to tell people how to extract particular information
> from version control history. And I'd expect most git guides to
> concentrate on things such as git bisect, because I'd expect "find the
> revision that introduced a bug" to be a more common issue than "find all
> changes affecting a symbol called X, across all source files".
>
> We cannot expect people to learn a multitude of different tools, or
> tools that have vanished from history. The above commands might not
> even be available in other DVCSs that fall under the critera you
> listed, nor are they available under normal usage in for example
> Emacs. I know how to use Emacs, I have no intention of learning to
> use at least 5 different version control systems, and then expecting
> everyone to do so is something that is infact useless and a waste of
> time.
how is expecting every developer to do the repetive exercise of
describing their changes more productive than teach some lazy users how
to use git log/blame?
Regards,
Giuseppe
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Rical Jasan, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Rical Jasan, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful,
Giuseppe Scrivano <=
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/05
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/06