Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:49:37 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.17 |
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:06:17PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Not a lot of changes since the last -rc, the bulk is actually some > > last-minute MIPS updates and s390 futex changes, the rest tend to be > > various very small fixes that trickled in over the last week. > > 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? > > They're easy for me to generate, but if nobody uses them, I don't see much > of a point..
I like to read the shortlog for getting an overview of the changes containing a bit more detail than your verbal summary at the top.
I need git for getting more detail and I could generate them myself. But if it wasn't there, I might not generate it myself, and might therefore not ask "Why did this patch get into -rc6?" or become curious enough for using git to check the contents of a commit.
> Linus
cu Adrian
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