From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: Jim Wilson Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Martin von Loewis Subject: Re: Changelog time format Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:03:00 -0000 Message-id: <11282.895450897@hurl.cygnus.com> References: <199805172212.PAA04043@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00612.html In message < 199805172212.PAA04043@rtl.cygnus.com >you write: > I noticed that this was installed, but it doesn't seem to do anything usefu l. It's of marginal value (IMHO). But I didn't see a signifcant reason not to install the change. If folks object, we can always pull it out. > Simply adding it to one of the ChangeLog files in gcc isn't interesting. > We either add it to all of them or none of them. Well, 99% of our changes go into gcc/ChangeLog and gcc/cp/ChangeLog And (IMHO) we probably don't want to go adding this to things like texinfo, libio, libstdc++ which are maintained externally. > We can't add it to all > of them unless we get everyone to agree that the old format is better. I don't think we need to get everyone to agree. We can't please everyone, so we shouldn't try > Also, the change isn't going to force all ChangeLog entries to use the > new format. I always create a patch file, add the ChangeLog entry to the > patch file, and then copy it into the ChangeLog file. Hence all of the > patches I create on my Linux machine will continue to use the new format. Absolutely. I actually make my ChangeLog entries with a vi macro, jeff