From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6A335D.6020401@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203192048.21988.vapier@gentoo.org>
On 3/19/12 5:48 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i'd like to split up a ChangeLog to push arch-specific pieces into subdirs
> rather than having the common ChangeLog be clogged with non-common changes.
> is there a policy governing this ? or should i just cut all the relevant
> pieces out of the common one and paste it into the subdir and be done ?
>
That's a decision left up to maintainers. In general, I've come to
favor having fewer ChangeLog files, as with the ubiquity of public
source-control systems, the manually-maintained logs are coming to seem
more like an anachronism left over from pre-Internet days, and reducing
the number is one way to spend less time and effort on managing them.
Also, if you do per-arch logs, then you've forced everybody making a
cross-arch change into editing dozens of ChangeLogs. So while as
cross-platform types, we love to separate things into subdirs, I think
this is one case where it will come to seem like more of a nuisance than
a benefit.
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-21 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 0:48 Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 2:19 ` Doug Evans
2012-03-21 2:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 2:42 ` Doug Evans
2012-03-21 20:00 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
2012-03-23 3:25 ` Mike Frysinger
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