Re: OProfile git repo creation

[John L. <le...@mo...>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:22:41AM -0500, William Cohen wrote:

> SystemTap had a similar migration from cvs to git. One thing that was
> done to make merging easier was to eliminate the explicit changelog
> file; it resulted in many conflicts.  All that information in the
> changelog can be easily obtained from "git log".

We originally had a ChangeLog file because CVS was so crappy about
digging through historical data. That's obviously not the case with git
so that makes sense to me (and course there's no need to list the
author, date, email, or files changed explicitly in this case either)

regards
john