Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

On 3/17/21 11:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> From: Luis Machado <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:25 -0300
>>
>>> I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism.  And OTOH, producing the
>>> ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
>>> time.  So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
>>> something that some people may value.  Why refuse to pay that small
>>> price and humor those few people?
>>
>> Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and
>> saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the
>> ChangeLog entries we have now?
> 
> That's the idea, yes.  Of course, for such a generated ChangeLog to be
> useful, the Git commit log messages should be informative enough.
> 

I see. Given the ChangeLog will list all the files that were changed, I 
suppose the commit messages would only need to describe what the changes 
are about. But the description may not list function names, files, new 
data structures etc. Would that work?

Or did you have something more specific in mind?