> A point about development practice: I believe that in a > version-control system with real changesets, the ChangeLog > convention is obsolete. The whole-commit information that went in > ChangeLog entries now naturally lives in per-changeset comments. > > Can you think of any reason I shouldn't put comments explaining this > at the top of each ChangeLog?
Right now, I would like to stay with ChangeLog entries in the usual way. A new maintainer might change this, say, to use git commit entries only, generating a ChangeLog file automatically. IMHO, the right time to do such a switch is immediately after a new release. Werner