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Re: ChangeLog info missing ?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: paawan oza <paawan1982 at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>, "gdb\ at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:00:58 -0600
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog info missing ?
- References: <47709.51319.qm@web112517.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4CC33CA2.90002@vmware.com> <4CC33F46.3080104@vmware.com> <904677.30619.qm@web112502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
>>>>> ">" == paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com> writes:
>> but I am confused with outer Changelog because, if you see patch
>> mentioned in below mail, which if checked in, will go to '/Changelog'
>> in the root directory itself,
If someone applies a patch manually he usually has to know which
ChangeLog to modify. Ordinarily this isn't hard.
>> so in conclusion, appropriately correcting my understanding, each
>> directory has changelog and changelog file is only applicable to be
>> modified if developer has modified contents of that directory.
Yes. If you modify a file, you must modify the nearest ChangeLog. That
is, you start in the file's directory and go upwards until you find a
ChangeLog file.
>> Outer Changelog is never affected.
>> right ?
Yes.
Tom