Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 00:41 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009 à 15:40 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo a
> écrit :
> > On a side note here, I recalled being against dropping ChangeLogs in
> > projects in favour of commit messages. But now I love it and I realize
> > that my main problem was that with SVN I *needed* the ChangeLog since
> > that was the *only way* I could quickly read the project history, svn
> > log took ages and was ugly.
> > Now with giggle or git command line utils it's trivial to watch
> > differences and read commit messages. 
> 
> Only if you have a checkout. But for those who want to look at the
> history with the web interface, this is a nightmare with both viewvc and
> gitweb. And for us who regularly access all modules without wanting to
> checkout all of them, this is a clear regression from what we had with a
> simple ChangeLog.

I'd agree if you could not properly see a project's commit history on a
web interface, like with viewvc for svn, but since you can:

  http://git.clutter-project.org/cgit.cgi?url=clutter/log/

your point is moot. Clutter removed the ChangeLog for good with the
switch to a proper (i.e. not svn) revision control system. we generate
the ChangeLog for the tarballs from the commit logs, obviously, since
you cannot access the revision control history in that case.

ciao,
 Emmanuele / not pimping git - just cgit.

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