Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > If we stop manually maintaining ChangeLog files because version
  > > control systems provide information just as good, we should include
  > > that information instead of the ChangeLog files.

  > Yes, and that's a stated part of the proposal: projects must maintain a 
public 
  > repository.

We are miscommunicating.  I am talking about the need to provide some
sort of change log data in the releases -- for situations where someone
does not have access to the repository because

There is no internet there.
The internet is totally surveilled.
Access is blocked from that place.
ssh is blocked in that place.
There is no repository any more in that year.
There is no internet in that year.

A repository of version history is very nice
but we must do things that would hamper working without one.

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