Re: Re: A request: Moving away from ChangeLog

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On May 21, 2010, at 5:06 PM, John Wiegley wrote:

> On May 21, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>
>> I think it would be better if line 3+ would be exact ChangeLog  
>> entries
>> format-wise, so that you can still use emacs' ChangeLog facilities
>> (`add-change-log-entry').  I don't really want to write the changed  
>> file
>> and function names on my own, and adding them correctly is exactly  
>> what
>> that function does very well.
>
> This ends up looking rather ugly in the history, and I would hate to  
> see VCS history bent merely to conform to tools usage.
>
> Rather, the history should be as clean and exact as possible.  If  
> elisp functions need to be written to convert ChangeLog entries to a  
> suitable format, I can do that.
>
> Also, in magit if you press 'C' on any diff hunk, it auto-generates  
> a properly formatted ChangeLog-style comment into the current commit  
> log.

But only the file, not the function...

- Carsten