Re: Why have a ChangeLog file if you already have commit messages?

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:50 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> 
> With git, it's simple as well.  I could, in principle,
> prepare my NEWS entry from git log.  But the messages
> would no longer be grouped as they are with separate
> ChangeLog files.  What's more, it seems most git users
> don't prefix their commit messages with the affected
> files.  So I'd end up seeing a commit message like
> 
>   Updated the Spanish translation

Try git-log --stat

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