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Re: The use of the toplevel ChangeLog and config/ChangeLog
- From: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com (Nathanael Nerode)
- To: kelleycook at wideopenwest dot com, zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:42:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: The use of the toplevel ChangeLog and config/ChangeLog
>Kelley Cook <kcook34@ford.com> writes:
>> a) There remains a separate config/ChangeLog and all the config/
>> changes be documented only in there.
>>
>> b) All changes to the config/ directory be documented in the toplevel
>> directory and there not be a config/ChangeLog.
>>
>> Of course, it is quite possible, that am I missing something and there
>> is a reason that some go in one ChangeLog and some in the other?
>>
>> Anyway I'll volunteer to clean up the ChangeLog(s), if everyone can
>> come to an agreement of which way it should go. Personally, I would
>> think that the ChangeLog in the toplevel should be good enough.
Zack Weinberg writes:
>I vote (a), because there is legitimate reason for the top-level
>ChangeLogs in src/ and gcc/ not to be identical, but the config/
>directory is supposed to be kept precisely in sync between the two
>repositories. Therefore keeping a separate changelog for that
>directory ensures that changes will stay documented in both
>repositories.
(a) is correct. :-)
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
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