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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Mailing-list zsh-workers <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions.
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:09:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <171018180901.ZM19235@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21335.1508343802@thecus.kiddle.eu>

On Oct 18,  6:23pm, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
}
} We preserved the ChangeLog in its existing form when migrating from CVS
} largely so that we were changing as little as possible. But we have git
} log. All new ChangeLog entries can be autogenerated

This is so appealing in theory and yet so horrible (IMO) in practice.
Git log format does not lend itself to this [*] and its immutability
makes it impossible to correct errors (of which we have plenty) or to
fix mis-attribution when e.g. one of the developers is committing on
behalf of some other contributor who should get credit.


[*] Yes, I know you can use formats to present the log in a whole lot
of flexible ways.  But the one thing you can't change is what info is
stored by git in the first place, to which to apply those formats.

-- 
Barton E. Schaefer


  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-19  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7240.1507973844@thecus.kiddle.eu>
2017-10-14 14:44 ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Julien Nicoulaud
2017-10-14 16:49   ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Eric Cook
2017-10-16 14:29   ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-16 15:11     ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Peter Stephenson
2017-10-16 15:24       ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Bart Schaefer
2017-10-16 15:42         ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Peter Stephenson
2017-10-16 17:49           ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions gi1242+zsh
2017-10-17 21:09             ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Joey Pabalinas
2017-10-18 16:23               ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-19  1:09                 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2017-10-19  4:03                   ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Aaron Schrab
2017-10-19  5:24                     ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Bart Schaefer
2017-11-01 23:33                   ` ChangeLogs (Re: GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions.) Oliver Kiddle
2017-11-01 23:46                     ` Bart Schaefer
2017-11-02 20:09                       ` Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-19  1:31                 ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Joey Pabalinas
2017-10-19 14:37                 ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Daniel Shahaf
2017-10-30 23:38                   ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-11-01 16:35                     ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Daniel Shahaf
2017-11-01 22:58                       ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-16 23:00           ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Bart Schaefer
2017-10-16 20:04       ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Daniel Shahaf
2017-10-17  7:53       ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-17  8:41         ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Peter Stephenson
2017-10-16 15:26     ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions gi1242+zsh
2017-10-17  9:35       ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Oliver Kiddle
2017-10-19 18:25         ` GH:zsh-users/zsh-completions Daniel Tameling

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