Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 02:41:33PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote:
| > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:57:24PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > > Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > > 
| > > | Hello,
| > > | 
| > > | I have a tendency to commit very often... but this double-changelogs
| > > | and mail to lyx-devel is fastidious.
| > > 
| > > Agree.
| > > 
| > > btw. did we come to any consensus about my "Drop ChangeLogs" RFC?
| >  
| > I would agree... but shouldn't then the commit message be of the
| > ChangeLog format? I.e., without the name line. The output of svn log
| > should look more or less like the ChangeLog file. It shouldn't be hard
| > to set up emacs for this.
| 
| Even that is overkill: svn log -v gives output like
| 
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r13311 | baum | 2006-03-07 12:02:07 +0200 (Tue, 07 Mar 2006) | 2 lines
| Changed paths:
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/ChangeLog
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/frontends/controllers/tests/pch.h
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/pch.h
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/support/ChangeLog
|    M /lyx-devel/trunk/src/support/pch.h
| 
| fix nullstream also in pch files
| 
| What more do we need? Only the last line was manually entered.

In this case that would be enough.

One thing the ChangeLog format has that is usefule is mentioning the
function where the change took place.

But, yes, a tiny bit of effort and svn log messages could just as
useful as ChangeLog, but more powerful and less work.

-- 
        Lgb

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