On Aug 26, 2009, at 3:26 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
I am so sick of Changelogs. Every time I get a patch ready to land,
I end up being blocked on commit because of conflicts in the stupid
ChangeLog files. Often even after I resolve conflicts, someone
checks in again, and then I get conflicts all over again.
If I have to make a minor change because of a code review, I often
don't feel like I can even re-run layout tests, because waiting even
5 minutes just means I'm going to have conflicts again!
Having everyone in the project hitting the same file when all of
this information could be specified as part of checkin messages is
just crazy. How much productivity has been lost from everyone
having to fix that stupid file... we've even written whole scripts
just to deal with merge headaches from this file.
What purpose do these stupid files even serve at this point?
They need to die.
It's great to hear you say this. I agree and hit this issue all the
time as well. Like you say, the SVN log has the same information as
the Changelog. Maybe prepareChangelog should become
prepareCommitMessage which can generate a message template with slots
for the reviewer and list the files changed so you can still add
details about the changes. It would make life easier, I think...
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~Chris
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