On 12/2/07, Richard Kenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If all the changelog entry says is something like > > > > (xyz): new function > > > > I don't see much point, since a diff can always easily tell > > you *what* was changed. > > The point is that, by just looking at the ChangeLog, you can tell when > xyz was introduced and by whom. I've used that quite a number of > times. Moreover, as was pointed out, when you have a source > distribution, you don't get the commit logs, just the ChangeLog. There are in fact, already programs that will generate GNU format changelogs from svn log (see http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/) It would be very easy to run these as part of the release process.
Last time I looked, this is in fact how some GNU projects generate ChangeLog for distribution! >
