ChangeLogging commits to CVS

Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Tue Dec 14 07:19:07 PST 2004


Thomas Hellström writes:
 > > Furthermore the text added to ChangeLog file should also go into
 > > the log of the commit itself.
 > >
 > 
 > Should the file and function list added by prepare-changelog.pl also go
 > into the commit log or just to the ChangeLog?

Yes, I would think so. It helps to locate other files which contain
related changes.
I forgot to add that if the file list gets too long (which usually happens
when a branch gets merged) it should get deleted stripped down to a 
directory listing.

Egbert.



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