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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 18:10:07 -0500
> 
> When merging in changes that were made on various dates, the proper
> thing to do is to combine and condense the change log entries and
> enter them under a single date, which is the date that you installed
> all the changes.

This is sometimes hard to do, especially when the original sequence
of log entries is long.  This is because the original log frequently
mentions multiple changes to the same function; merging them all into
a single entry for each function is time-consuming and might actually
lose information (e.g., when changes are backed up).

So I think just re-dating the changes is good enough.  But that's
me...