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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:

> The advantage of Changelogs is that you can write them at the time the
> change is made, not at the time of commit. 

This is exactly what I do.

> In addition Changelogs contain the function/variable affected by the
> change and there is support from Emacs to add them automatically.

Yes, very useful.

> Is there a way to have the same for CVS logs? What do typically do
> when using CVS to document changes? use free format?

Here's the beauty.  I use ChangeLogs when doing development, then just
use those entries for the CVS commit.  It works pretty darn well.
You might want to look at PCL-CVS which automates quote a bit of this
for you.

Lee.