Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > ChangeLog entries are trivial and quick to write, and save so much
   > time in the future.  The small repetiveness is a insignificant price
   > to pay for the benefit of the ChangeLog file in various forms.

   Repetiveness, even if small, is still a bad thing when a computer can do
   the task for you.

They cannot be generated by a computer.  Your remainder points do not
address how ChangeLog entries are a bad thing, rather they show that
git or current tooling around git is unsuitable for handling them
nothing else.

   Cloning a repository is the de facto way of distributing source
   code nowadays.  

For the GNU project this is clearly false, our prefered way is to
distribute tarballs.

   Maintaining ChangeLogs is a waste of time both for
   the developers writing them and for whoever is going to use it.

Since maintainers and users clearly find them useful, calling it a
waste of time is just a silly and dishonest argument.