From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-06-06T00:20:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30601] Re: Why the ChangeLog?

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:30600] Why the ChangeLog?"
    on Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:01:27 +0900, Marc-Andre Lafortune <ruby-core-mailing-list@marc-andre.ca> writes:

|What is the use of the ChangeLog?
|
|Isn't it basically redundant with {svn,git} log while being much less
|powerful? Even for those without a local repository, the list of
|commits is available online, globally or per file, as HTML or rss
|feed, etc., so I'm curious as to who ever looks at the ChangeLog and
|what for.

I do check it often, maybe because I am an old school guy.  For
resolving conflict you can use git-merge-changelog, or our home brew
utility tool/resolve_changelog.rb from mvm branch.

|In a similar vein, I presume the NEWS in trunk will be reset, now that
|we've branched off 1.9.2?

Yes, it soon will be.

							matz.