[webkit-dev] Changes to prepare-ChangeLog

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:01:09AM -0700, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Mike Hommey<mh+webkit at glandium.org> wrote:
> > I've always wondered, in the days of atomic commits and advanced SCM, why
> > fill changelogs at all ? Except for CVS, RCS or SCCS, any SCM already
> > stores the log of changes. Keeping a Changelog in the SCM is both a
> > duplication of information and a stick to beat yourself when you
> > cherry-pick or revert changes, or merge branches.
> 
> When I've ask similar questions in the past, I've been told:
> 
> 1) Changelogs are easier to search / archive / fix up than commit log messages.

For search and archive, nothing prevents you to generate ChangeLogs for
that purpose.

> 2) We can review the Changelog messages using bugzilla's review
> system, but it's harder to review the commit log message.

Not if the patch contains the commit message in its header, like git
or mercurial do. Creating a script for svn, if it doesn't already exist,
wouldn't be too hard, too.

Mike