commit IDs in changelog messsages (was: Introductory mail)

[Petr Baudis]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:47:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> In the long run, I really want to supersede "Closes:" anyway.
> Ideally, the bug gets marked 'fix-committed' when a signed-off
> commit closing the bug hits the repo (or a tag like closes-123456
> appears), and an upload would identify bugs closed between the last
> upload and this one, using the repo and those commit IDs, and then
> selectively close those bugs.

Then why do you actually keep the changelog? Usually about 50% of the
times when I look at it is when I need to check "when was bug X fixed?".

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis