Automatically generated ChangeLogs (was: Selection-set editing without VC-dired)

[Reiner Steib]

[ The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has
  been posted to news:gmane.emacs.devel as well. ]

On Thu, Jan 03 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
>> Recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file more important.  The
>> reason I dropped my opposition to multi-file commits is that I
>> realized that the info I used to get by looking at a CVS log, I could get
>> from the ChangeLog file instead with a suitable selective visibility
>> mode.
>
> From what I can see, recent trends in VCS make the ChangeLog file less
> important because it can be automatically regenerated from the
> commit logs.  And by "automatically regenerated" I really mean that the
> output is just as good, or even identical.

Currently our ChangeLogs contain information about the contributor
which is not necessarily identical to the committer.  Would a recent
VCS hold this information in a form that an automatically regenerated
ChangeLog contains it too?

Bye, Reiner.
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