Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > It is also clear in practice that there are certain kinds of changes for 
  > which the ChangeLog format is poorly suited, because those changes cannot 
  > readily be described or understood in terms of separate descriptions of 
  > what they do to each individual named entity affected, or because 
  > describing in those terms results in a very long description that is 
  > excessively duplicative of the diffs themselves (which can be seen in the 
  > VCS history).

That is a very abstract description.  I can't be sure what cases you
have in mind, let alone be sure that I agree with the conclusion
about those cases.

Would you like to present a real or imaginary example?
>From that, I could tell whether I agree with this conclusion:

  > - but adding the ChangeLog-format descriptions of each 
  > fragment of the changes is extra work that does not provide any 
  > corresponding benefit.

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