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[62.194.120.217]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id cq7-20020a056402220700b0052c11951f4asm3402309edb.82.2023.09.05.03.00.28 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 05 Sep 2023 03:00:28 -0700 (PDT) References: <871qfsuvad.fsf@gmail.com> <8e74c4ac-a6f3-9127-7e13-593a2eb70432@gmail.com> <87a5ubqxm6.fsf@gmail.com> <877cp8965f.fsf@xelera.eu> <8eb1be08-4c3a-bd30-46c7-4ed653c4bb12@autistici.org> <87ledotmqc.fsf@riseup.net> <874jkads65.fsf@spork.org> User-agent: mu4e 1.10.5; emacs 28.2 From: pinoaffe To: Andreas Enge Cc: brian , Attila Lendvai , Csepp , paul , Giovanni Biscuolo , Katherine Cox-Buday , guix-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Scanner: mx2.migadu.com X-Spam-Score: -6.55 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: C740F53EDE X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.55 X-TUID: uctsM+TSvRVN Andreas Enge writes: > Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:44:18AM -0400 schrieb brian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: >> Regarding the GNU changelog commits, I really dislike them. They're >> redundant busy-work as far as I'm concerned. And while I'd like to say >> they're no longer necessary, because we have better tooling > > As said before, I use them all the time through > git log | grep "whatever I am looking for" > or the interactive > git log > then "/" for searching inside the less command; I find it useful to a point > that I have moved to this style for all my coding projects. > > So as far as I am concerned, they are tremendously useful. Well, that may > be due to a lack of git knowledge, of course! But while in other projects > I often find I need to look at the content of commits, in Guix it is often > enough to just look at the changelog. I also quite like the commit messages, they've allowed me to find things that I couldn't have found using `git blame`