On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 19:54:06 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
For what it's worth, that's how things were setup a long time
ago (by me), but a lot of people argued enough that it was
dropped. I can't remember why.
If you look at the existing changelogs, they are much more
detailed.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/f77b38705bd12395c5a62f3bd4567a2935debbf1/changelog.dd
Merge conflicts in changelog can be reduced using merge=union,
btw.
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/02/10/gitlab-reduced-merge-conflicts-by-90-percent-with-changelog-placeholders/
