Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Joseph Myers]

I'd like to get back to this discussion of version control logs as an 
optional alternative to the ChangeLog format (without any change to the 
existing requirements on code comments), since it seems to have tailed 
off.

I answered various questions off-list in February about how particular 
change descriptions in version control history related to the code 
changes, and how comments were used in the example changes discussed 
(comments giving the information seeming relevant to people looking at the 
current code, commit logs giving the information seeming relevant to 
people looking at the change - overlapping but not identical information), 
and discussed the different forms of comments that tend to arise in 
different projects.

People have given various examples of different ways to use git to 
investigate bugs and code history, and there has been some time for people 
to try out the different approaches in practice to see how using version 
control tools for these things works.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
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