The Emacs ChangeLog is a file which predates the existence of freely available, project-wide version control. It was a way to see, in one place, the stream of changes occurring in a project -- something which RCS could not do for you.
However, in this modern era of project-wide, atomic commits, the ChangeLog is not only an archaism, but is a continuous source of merge conflicts. For example, when I reverted Russell's latest change -- a one-liner that was minor in the extreme -- I had to do with a merge conflict in lisp/ChangeLog. With a system like Git, and properly written commits, you can produce a ChangeLog at any time with "git log". You even see a ChangeLog for just one file, or a directory with "git log --follow PATH". This completes supersedes any need for a ChangeLog file, and has led me to abandon the use of ChangeLogs in all the projects I maintain. I would request we do so for Org-mode as well, unless there is some compelling reason to keep this file. John _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
