Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > rms: Git does not provide tools to replace the type of ChangeLog entries
  > that you are describing.

If that is the case, then I fear we would really be losing something.

But I see a possible avenue for correcting that: to write something to
extract the crucial information from Git history and data, and store
it in a generated ChangeLog file.

The substantial job here is to write code that can find all the named
entities in the source file, and associate each entity's name with a
range of line numbers.  If it does this job right in all the cases
source files contain, it would be easy enough to determine
automatically the name of each entity and which ones were changed
in a givien commit.

If we make a commitment to make this work right in all the cases, it
would then be a fully adequate replacement for writing ChangeLog files
by hand.

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