From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Changelogs, really useful? Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:47:15 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281114205 11106 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 17:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:03:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 19:03:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQKF-0000Yx-Dx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:03:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhQKE-0003hh-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41677 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhQ51-0000Me-9C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQ4z-0000R7-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQ4z-0000R3-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhQ4t-0000nL-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:47:27 +0200 Original-Received: from xdsl-89-0-32-26.netcologne.de ([89.0.32.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:47:27 +0200 Original-Received: from andrea.crotti.0 by xdsl-89-0-32-26.netcologne.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:47:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: xdsl-89-0-32-26.netcologne.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F0zruE7zHwU3FRhbgt8WE3ln4WY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74483 Archived-At: It's not really a question about emacs maybe (even if we can automate things) but more general about programming... I was wondering if it's still so useful to write detailed Changelogs. I mean all the software is under revision control, and doing small commits often I write a commit message for only one function, which would be exactly what I add in the changelog. I don't like to write things twice, and also history in the control revision system is much more detailed, does it really make sense to add changelogs? I think that only the changes that involve the architecture or how to use the software should be really important, but the default style on emacs is quite detailed. How do you manage? Write twice? Write only in the changelog/scm? Other? Thanks