I'd like to get back to this discussion of version control logs as an optional alternative to the ChangeLog format (without any change to the existing requirements on code comments), since it seems to have tailed off.
I answered various questions off-list in February about how particular change descriptions in version control history related to the code changes, and how comments were used in the example changes discussed (comments giving the information seeming relevant to people looking at the current code, commit logs giving the information seeming relevant to people looking at the change - overlapping but not identical information), and discussed the different forms of comments that tend to arise in different projects. People have given various examples of different ways to use git to investigate bugs and code history, and there has been some time for people to try out the different approaches in practice to see how using version control tools for these things works. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected]
