Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > There are a couple of scripts published (I think one of them is part of 
gnulib)
  > which automatically convert a git history, into a ChangeLog file.  If the 
  > commit messages have been composed thoughtfully,  I believe such ChangeLog 
files
  > are indistinguishable from manually maintained ones.

If that is true, it is a good method.  Would someone like to determine
what rules people should practice, so as to assure that the output gives us
all the useful information that a properly written ChangeLog file has?
(It doesn't need to be the same in form.)

My concern, as I stated recently, is that there are some unusual (but
not amazingly rare) cases where the automatic tools would omit some of
the information.  Maybe such a problem does not exist -- but let's
verify that carefully.

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