Re: git history tracking across renames (and emacs support)

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If you
> are saying that ChangeLogs are_never_  useful in these situations,
> then that's a strangely extremist view

I doubt whether anybody is going that far. (Hand-illuminated manuscripts are 
occasionally useful too, but nobody is recommending them for maintaining Emacs. :-)

Although the current ChangeLog format is sometimes useful, nowadays it is an 
unnecessary luxury because so much of its benefit is now available via 
reasonably-effective VC tools, whereas its cost hasn't gone down (quite the 
reverse, I'd say). And I say that as someone who reads ChangeLogs quite a bit 
and who appreciates their occasional utility.