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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: -7.01 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: A56B8357C0 X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -7.01 X-TUID: 2YhsrFlDki4L Hi, Attila Lendvai writes: >> also not as obvious (you search for lines added or removed or changed, >> not easy language such as 'gnu: package-name: Add'). > > > i'm pretty sure that the source of the annoyance is not the strict > format in the summary line, but the formal details in the commit > message body. Agreed, but my point still holds. The search space of our ChangeLog messages is much smaller than that of the whole code base, thus is faster (more efficient) and can be done interactively easily from the 'git log' output in your favorite $PAGER, as Andreas mentioned. -- Thanks, Maxim