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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
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Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:54:48 -0400 |
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> This can easily be encoded in a database table so it's searchable,
> indexed by symbol name or file name (to build a history), etc. as part
> of the pull request system. It can be semi-automatic: the system figures
> out the file and symbol changes, then the developer adds the rest (and
> the review doesn't end until this is done).
Given a program that can determine which function or entity name
to associate with each line, it would not be hard to make a list of
which entities are changed in a given patch.
Do we have such a program? I don't know that we do.
However, determining what kind of change was made to a certain entity
in a certain patch is much harder. Consider this:
* file.c (create_swimming_pool): New function
(modernize_building): Call it.
How would a program decide whether "Call it." is enough to say about
the change in modernize_building, or whether it is necessary to say
more?
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Richard Stallman, 2016/07/10
- auto-generating skeleton ChangeLogs (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?), Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/11
- Re: auto-generating skeleton ChangeLogs, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/12
- Re: auto-generating skeleton ChangeLogs, Stefan Monnier, 2016/07/12
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Phillip Lord, 2016/07/11
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Richard Stallman, 2016/07/12
- debbugs tracker builds character (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?), Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/20
- Re: debbugs tracker builds character, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/07/20