[Groff] Fw: Generating ChangeLog files.

[Werner LEMBERG]

Regarding the abandoning of ChangeLog files: There is an interesting
thread right now about this topic in the emacs-devel mailing list.
Attached you can find one of the messages, and I agree with Eli.
However, other people might think differently...


    Werner
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> Re: Generating ChangeLog files.
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> Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:12:35 +0200
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> > From: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:31:39 +0100
> > Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>,
> >       Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden>
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> > I usually write patches on a branch and rebase them when they are ready to be 
> > pushed.  This always causes merge conflicts for the ChangeLog.  (Maybe [1] 
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> There should be no merge conflicts with ChangeLog files.  I see an
> absolute zero of them.  git-merge-changelog and the changelog_merge
> plugin in bzr make this not an issue.
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> > E.g., GNU Octave replaced ChangeLog with an auto-generated ChangeLog from 
> > commit messages and they seem to be quite happy with that solution.
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> I've seen a couple of projects that eliminated ChangeLogs.  In every
> single case, the result was a drastic deterioration in the quality of
> the commit log information.
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> > I know the topic has been discussed several times and it seems a bit 
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> > to start the discussion again.  But in my opinion ChangeLogs are an even 
> > bigger issue than the VC because at least I can work around the latter by 
> > using git-bzr.
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> As pointed out above, you should be able to resolve the former as
> well, in no time.
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