Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

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