Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> Am Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 08:44:18AM -0400 schrieb brian via Development of GNU > Guix and the GNU System distribution.: >> > - strict adherence to changelog style commit messages without a >> > clearly worded and documented argument about why it's worth the >> > effort in 2023. whenever 'C' fails to add an entry to the commit >> > message in Emacs, i groan out loud. >> 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. > > Andreas What's wrong with grepping the contents as well?
