Two GCC stories
Two GCC stories
Posted Jul 5, 2010 15:23 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576)In reply to: Two GCC stories by foom
Parent article: Two GCC stories
The best/worst part of that is the confusingly incoherent explanations for why some people apparently still think that's a good idea.
It seems to boil down to the following: some people don't want to use a revision control system, so they want the log that it could automatically generate to be manually created by a human. The idea of branching and merging is alien so that fact that this necessitates manual changelog merges is irrelevant. They don't want the actual VCS commit log to have any extra information than could be automatically generated because then the log that they don't want or plan to look at would be different to the manually generated log, which might confuse somebody.