> My secret desire is that once we get this done we would drop these > silly ChangeLogs. Although I'm not a kernel developer, I kind of like > the Linux kernel style, where the commit msg contains a reasonably > in-depth motivation for the change, sort of like the email message one > sends to gcc-patches when introducing a patch (in fact, if one uses > git format-patch + git send-email this kind of workflow is supported > out-of-the-box). I find that a lot more useful than a screenful of > "Likewise". YMMV.
The point of the "likewise" is to show which functions changed. I think that's at least as important as the detailed motivation for the change.
