Re: Why have a ChangeLog file if you already have commit messages?

["BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne gmail com>]

On 9/18/07, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> People are lazy by default, and the lure of
>
>    svn commit -m "quick fix"
>
> is just too big (replace svn with your favorite tool; it happens for all
> of them).

That is simply not true. Checkout KDE
(http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/), Python
(http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/) or SDL
(http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/) just to take three
random projects that uses Subversion without ChangeLogs. They all have
excellent and detailed commit messages that explain *why* something is
changed.

There is no rational reason why GNOME would need both ChangeLog and svn log.

-- 
mvh Björn