David Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:45:36PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> I was surprised not too long ago when a project changed it's procedures >> to eliminate the ChangeLog. My first reaction was to believe I'd miss it >> and that commit logs would never adequately substitute, because they >> were invariably terse and often cryptic. > > I've found several reasons that commit logs are terse and often useless: > > - People perhaps haven't seen how useful they can be when they are good. > > - They aren't part of what gets reviewed. > > - They can't be changed after you've committed them.
The last remark is not right for SVN. It does allow log entries to be changed: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#change-log-msg >.. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
