On May 7, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Steven Coul (scoul) <sc...@cisco.com> wrote:
> Okay, > > But then, information in the change logs is also mirrored in the repo log. > For instance, could you not do “git log | grep <whatever>” ? WebKit is stored in an svn repository, not a git repository. SVN stores history on the server and `svn log` requires networking, so ChangeLogs are invaluable for contributors who prefer svn. And some of those committers are invaluable to the project. > If we are not going to keep functional but currently unused code visible, why > bother with ancient-history ? Indeed, we remove dead code with the notion that it can always be resurrected from history. Commit history is how one would determine when/why that code was removed, and I believe the project considers ChangeLogs to be the local copy of that commit history that everybody has. ~Brady > On May 7, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > >> >> On May 7, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Steven Coul (scoul) <sc...@cisco.com> wrote: >> >>> Or just remove them? >> >> I grep them all the time. I don’t think removing them would be a good thing. >> >> Many projects use the configuration management system’s own change logging >> system rather than an explicit text file, but that’s not how we’ve been >> doing things in WebKit. >> >> — Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
