Re: Script to generate ChangeLogs automatically

[Richard Stallman]

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  > You need to know some C to contribute to a package written in C.  
  > Similarly, I think it's reasonable to expect knowledge of some git to 
  > explore the history of a package using git.

Those two issues look similar at a superficial glance, but they are
fundamentally very different.  It is impossible to understand a
program without knowing the language it is written in.  But git is
just a development tool.  It is only marginally necessary -- not
crucial.

In any case, remember that the problem with git is that its commands
to study the history predictably fail in certain cases.
The program I want people to write would work around that failure.


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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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