Maintaining Document History is not working. Suggestion: Use git log

[jastram]

Hello,

As I was wrapping up the review of D7.2, it was obvious that the contributors often forgot to maintain the "Document Evolution" section of the document. I completed the section by using "git log" on the document's .tex files.

Therefore the question/suggestion: Why not use the git log right away? If people write good commit comments, this is much more complete and reliable than a manually maintained document section.

[srieger]

I support this proposal; if we could export the GitHub history we would get this section for free. I usually try to write meaningful commit messages.