Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gustavo Noronha <gns gnome org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:17 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
>> But that's just a gut feeling and maybe it's wrong. The point is,
>> ChangeLogs were invented back when RCS-files-on-an-NFS-server was the
>> pinnacle of version control technology, and maybe what was most useful
>> then isn't what's most useful now.
>
> Coming in a bit too late, I'd point out that having the ChangeLog files
> is good for when all you have is a tarball - think being offline. I
> otherwise agree with you completely.

That's why it should be generated automatically when creating tarballs.

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Felipe Contreras