Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Sure,
>    on the other hand projects with ChangeLogs that are hand-tended
> to are, in my personal experience richer than logs of arbitrary commits,
> if only by the simple virtue of forcing you to spend time caring for it.

I use ChangeLogs a lot. My preference for hand-made ChangeLogs is that 
the author involuntarily tends to order things by priority. The fact 
that he bumped the solib version is much more important than that he 
cleaned up whitespace, fixed an include flag that breaks on some obscure 
platform, etc. The latter of examples of the kind of entries frequently 
seen in auto-generated logs. As Murray says, increased entropy. I'll 
take a weak wine to a high-powered beer any day.

--Pat