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Re: ChangeLog rotation (or... eliminating ChangeLogs)
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:53:03 +1030
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog rotation (or... eliminating ChangeLogs)
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:11:11PM -0800, Cary Coutant wrote:
> What's the rationale for rotating ChangeLogs every year? To me, it's
> much simpler to have a single monolithic file -- especially
> considering that wildcard substitution puts the files in ascending
> order, while searching within a file returns results in descending
> order.
We haven't been using git for all that long. With CVS, I believe that
any changed file is transmitted to the repository in entirety when
committing (and also for other operations). Large frequently changed
files therefore created a network traffic problem on the server.
Locally too if you were on 300 baud dialup. :)
So ChangeLogs were rotated when they became too big for comfort, and
later, annually.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM