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Re: 2.12.x branch future?
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:52:01PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:43:01PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I don't mean they need to be any more sorted by date than they normally
> > are; I mean that people should continue to add them at the top when
> > they do the merge to the branch, rather than in the corresponding place
> > where they are on the mainline. I'd like them in the order the patches
> > appeared on the branch.
>
> I have found this to be a nice way to doing ChangeLog's on a branch:
>
> 2001-06-11 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
>
> Merge from mainline.
> 2001-03-23 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
> * README-maintainer-mode: Add note about inability to use "make
> distclean" in maintainer mode.
>
> can we agree to us this style -- it being the main "by line" is the date
> the change is committed, but the "what changed" also includes the
> original by-line of the mainline (thus makes it easier to track back to
> mainline, and also gives credit to the original author of the change).
Sure. I like this idea; if you're merging anything significantly off
in date this is a good way to keep track.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer