Re: git and changelogs

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
>> Now that we've switched to git, hows about moving our changelogs to
>> ChangeLog.old, and just using commit logs? We can still generate
>> changelogs on release, if that's a desire.
> 
> I'd be tempted to do that, but among the many GNU projects that switched
> to Git, apparently none of them did away with ChangeLogs, and I would
> understand reluctance to remove them.

LilyPond was the first project to switch to Git, and the ChangeLog was one
of the first things that we junked.

* It's a nuisance, because it always conflicts on merges.

* After you've used 

  git log -Ssuspect_text -p branch -- 

the ChangeLog looks like a joke.

* We did have some autogenerated changelogs for a while, but I have
never seen any evidence that they were used.

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