Re: Can you provide more info in ChangeLog?

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:59:08AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> > I did have this information in the original change logs that I 
> > submitted, but Nick thought that the entries were too much to add (this 
> > port has been maintained by Red Hat internally for 6 years) and asked me 
> > to simply say which files had been changed.
> 
> > Nick -- what should I do?
> 
> I had thought that Nick was suggesting that you need not supply all of
> the ChangeLog entries for *new* files.  For those, you can simply create
> a ChangeLog entry that says "foo.c: New file".
> 
> For any existing file that your patches modify, I have always worked on
> the basis that the internal revision history is of little significance.
> For those files, you should diff against the mainline and provide
> ChangeLog entries as usual (that is, provide a ChangeLog entry that
> encompasses all of the changes that were made in private).

Thanks, Ben. That is exactly what I was looking for.


H.J.