Re: time to retire ChangeLog?

[Pascal B. <pj...@in...>]

> On 22 Feb 2017, at 21:11, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> ChangeLog is obsolete. Even Emacs does not use it anymore.
> 
> While I see obvious benefits, for me the main drawback is that it
> dramatically increases the probability of conflicts.
> If I make a local commit and do not push it right away, it is almost
> certain that I will have to go through either merge or strip/recommit
> because rebase will definitely fail.
> 
> WDYT?

There would be the option of generating it automatically from git log when making the tarball, but then git logs are usually much more detailed than a high level ChangeLog.

Probably, people interested in the history can always checkout from the repository instead of using tarballs. 

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__Pascal J. Bourguignon__