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: Re: Changelogs, really useful? Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:09:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281118236 25845 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2010 18:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 18:10:36 +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 20:10:34 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 1OhRNK-0001lB-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:10:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55558 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhRNJ-0007WZ-Rs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58328 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OhRMs-0007SA-Oq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhRMr-0004JZ-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhRMr-0004JQ-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhRMn-0001ZI-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:10:01 +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 20:10:01 +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 20:10:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 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: sha1:6H9mvtN98jwH0Pmny7EdcsoX7pc= 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:74486 Archived-At: Deniz Dogan writes: > > I suspect it's nice to have a changelog as a file just to be able to > put it online or wherever people would find it useful. Not everyone > enjoys or knows how to see the bzr log. > > Also, consider that the changelog file was introduced before bzr, > which meant that without it people would have to look in a CVS log. > (Those poor people!) Well but if someone wants to know that the day X I changed the return type of the function Y maybe he wants to read at the code and he's not scared to use an scm.