Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:03:28 +0100
> 
> > Even simpler would be to do what Guile does: it dispenses with
> > ChangeLogs entirely. With Guile if you want something like a ChangeLog
> > you run "git log".
> 
> This approach seems wrong to me.  I think it is still desirable to be
> able to partially analyze history directly from a tarball (even if it is
> not optimal) without requiring a web browser, or cloning a full git
> repository.

Yes, I very much agree.