Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:30:47 -0400 | From | Brice Goglin <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.17 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, one thing that I was planning to ask people - does anybody find the > full-format ChangeLog's that I produce at all useful? > > You can get the exact same information directly from git, and the full > changelog (as opposed to the shortlog) tends to be pretty rough to read, > so I suspect that most people who do want to delve into the details are > actually much more likely to look it up using git instead (at which point > you can obviously get much better information - graphical history, diffs, > etc) > > I'm not going to stop doing the incremental shortlogs, since those are > easy to read and I usually post them with the release announcement unless > they end up being too large (usually -rc1 has a _lot_ of changes as a > result of the merge window), but I'm just wondering if anybody finds the > full logs useful at all? >
I actually like having the full changelog of every kernels and grep in all them at once when I want to quickly find out where something has been added/modified without knowing the exact name of the function or file that I am looking for. I guess I could use git to generate the full changelog once a new release and keep it for later...
Regards, Brice
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