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> It is also clear in practice that there are certain kinds of changes for > which the ChangeLog format is poorly suited, because those changes cannot > readily be described or understood in terms of separate descriptions of > what they do to each individual named entity affected, or because > describing in those terms results in a very long description that is > excessively duplicative of the diffs themselves (which can be seen in the > VCS history). That is a very abstract description. I can't be sure what cases you have in mind, let alone be sure that I agree with the conclusion about those cases. Would you like to present a real or imaginary example? >From that, I could tell whether I agree with this conclusion: > - but adding the ChangeLog-format descriptions of each > fragment of the changes is extra work that does not provide any > corresponding benefit. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.
