From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: old ChangeLog files
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:18:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7704-Fri13Dec2002111852+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212121430.gBCEUnY09091@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:30:49 -0500
>
> Ideally this should also be merged into `ChangeLog' itself, but
> CVS performs poorly with large locally-modified files, so
> it's more convenient to keep a "small" ChangeLog file and move
> older stuff into ChangeLog.old.
>
> What do people think ?
It sounds like a good idea, but won't that cause ChangeLog.old to
grow indefinitely (assuming that Emacs is going to be maintained for
many years to come ;-)?
If the file becomes too large, it might become difficult to browse it
with e.g. Less or even Emacs itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-13 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-12 14:30 old ChangeLog files Stefan Monnier
2002-12-12 14:46 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-13 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-12-13 11:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-13 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-13 12:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-12-13 12:12 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-12-14 18:32 ` Richard Stallman
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