Hi Olaf, > > > > > Thats the reason I thought I should maintain a Changelog. Also I want > > it for my own reference later. > > Well, you can always look up the history in git. If you prefer it in a > text file, there are scripts that extract the commit messages and > generate a file from them. > > Again, maintaining a ChangeLog file manually only makes sense if it > actually contains something different than the commit messages... > > The only good reason I can think of would be maintaining a GNU-style > changelog in a file, while providing more useful comments in the git > commit messages. Note that GNU changelogs have a very strict form -- see > the chapter on changelogs in the "GNU Coding Style" document if you want > to go down that path... > > (Personally, I consider the GNU-style changelogs rather useless in times > of proper revision control systems, but YMMV...) > > Ok thanks a lot. Though I knew how helpful git histories would be, I did not know about the scripts that help backing up the git history to files. Ok I will go this way then. Also maintaining a GNU style Changelog is quite time consuming, and its something like doing every entry twice. I will drop that then. Thanks again
Also I am hopefully looking forward for a reply to my post on help regarding netfs. -- Thanks and regards, Madhusudan.C.S Blogs at: www.madhusudancs.info
