[SCM TRANSITION] Re: Proposal: move Randr protocol and library to git

Egbert Eich eich at suse.de
Wed Apr 19 04:00:18 PDT 2006


Lars Knoll writes:
 > 
 > IMO it's better to generate them when creating tarballs (it's nothing more 
 > than a "git-log > ChangeLog"). There's no reason for them to live in the SCM, 
 > as they are just duplicated information, that could get out of sync.

Well, you maybe right.
The reason I was thinking was slightly different:
I've been abusing changelog files in CVS to collect
informations from the CVS repository that would have 
been hard to retrieve from CVS otherwise.

These workarounds may not be necessary with git 
any more ;-)

Cheers,
	Egbert.



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