From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CVS commits and logs Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162710647 4130 80.91.229.2 (5 Nov 2006 07:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:10:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 05 08:10:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggc9S-0004qt-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggc9S-00034F-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:10:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggc7j-0002ER-7M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggc7i-0002E0-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggc7i-0002Dt-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ggc7i-00027u-4x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ggc7g-00061V-7C; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:08:52 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:40:21 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61810 Archived-At: Exception: it is okay to commit several changes to a single ChangeLog file in one "cvs ci" command if those changes are related to the same feature/bugfix. It's ok to commit unrelated items together in a ChangeLog file. Aside from that, I agree with your rules. One other rule: the date label of the ChangeLog entry should reflect the date on which the change was _committed_ (as opposed to the date when the change was made in someone's local sandbox). Yes. In other words, the dates in the ChangeLog should be monotonically increasing from bottom to top. The change log entries should always be in order of most recently committed first. As Juanma points out, that doesn't always mean the dates decrease.