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* A request: Moving away from ChangeLog
@ 2010-05-21  9:06 John Wiegley
  2010-05-21  9:41 ` John Wiegley
  2010-05-21 21:10 ` Christian Egli
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: John Wiegley @ 2010-05-21  9:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode Mode

The Emacs ChangeLog is a file which predates the existence of freely available, project-wide version control.  It was a way to see, in one place, the stream of changes occurring in a project -- something which RCS could not do for you.

However, in this modern era of project-wide, atomic commits, the ChangeLog is not only an archaism, but is a continuous source of merge conflicts.  For example, when I reverted Russell's latest change -- a one-liner that was minor in the extreme -- I had to do with a merge conflict in lisp/ChangeLog.

With a system like Git, and properly written commits, you can produce a ChangeLog at any time with "git log".  You even see a ChangeLog for just one file, or a directory with "git log --follow PATH".  This completes supersedes any need for a ChangeLog file, and has led me to abandon the use of ChangeLogs in all the projects I maintain.

I would request we do so for Org-mode as well, unless there is some compelling reason to keep this file.

John

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2010-05-21  9:06 A request: Moving away from ChangeLog John Wiegley
2010-05-21  9:41 ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 12:15   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-21 12:50     ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 13:47       ` Tassilo Horn
2010-05-21 15:06         ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 15:39           ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 15:46             ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 16:01               ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-21 16:32             ` Eric Schulte
2010-05-21 15:53           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-21 15:58             ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 14:32       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-21 15:08         ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 15:33         ` John Wiegley
2010-05-21 13:01     ` Ben Finney
2010-05-21 14:21       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-21 21:10 ` Christian Egli
2010-05-21 21:17   ` Julien Danjou
2010-06-01 14:58   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-06-02  7:44     ` Christian Egli
2010-06-02  9:32       ` Carsten Dominik

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