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Re: Subdir ChangeLogs
> Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>, stan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:54:42 -0600
>
> Eli> You asked for opinions, so here's mine: I don't really understand why
> Eli> we'd want to do this. The only reason I heard so far was that it will
> Eli> help when source and doc files are committed together.
>
> It means less busy-work. Right now when I prepare a patch I usually
> edit at least two ChangeLogs, sometimes three or four.
Well, I use Emacs, which brings me to the right ChangeLog
automagically. Once I'm in the right file, the rest doesn't matter,
since I need to write the text for each entry anyway.
> Then I have to redo that when re-applying the patch for checkin.
> And, then there is more editing preparing the commit message.
Looks like your tools are not set up in an optimal way. For example,
the commit messages are usually just copies of the log entries, so
it's just copy-paste. How hard can that be?
But as I said: I'm not going to fight against this.