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Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed]
On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > Could we rotate the ChangeLog file, too, please?
> >
> > ChangeLog rotation was previously objected to in
> > <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-06/msg00305.html>.
>
> My problem with the current situation is that the compress Git object for the
> main ChangeLog file is now around 800K. I have currently 37 such compressed
> objects in my git tree which cannot be packed, and that's quite inconvenient
> when rsync'ing things around.
>
> Rotating the ChangeLog would be a very low-tech solution to mitigate this
> issue.
Well, I don't object to either ad hoc rotation to ChangeLog.18, or
rearranging past ChangeLogs by date, independent of a move to
automatically generated ChangeLogs. But the previous discussion is
evidence of a lack of consensus.
(Correction to my previous message about renaming ChangeLogs: the existing
convention when stopping using ChangeLogs in a subdirectory would be to
rename to e.g. libidn/ChangeLog.old, as done in nptl/ and nptl_db/, not to
toplevel ChangeLog.libidn.)
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