Re: Tramp changelog entries messes up lisp/ChangeLog

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> > I would suggest creating a new lisp/net/tramp/ directory and move
> > the tramp*.el files there, and create a separate ChangeLog file there.
> > I suppose it will then make sense to move all of the tramp related
> > changelog entries from lisp/ChangeLog to lisp/net/tramp/ChangeLog.
> 
> But will you do this for every package that is maintained externally?

Probably not.  Which means maintainers of such packages should retag 
their entries with the check-in date.

Perhaps we should have a command to do that automatically on a region of 
a ChangeLog.  (Maybe there already is such a command, I didn't check.)

> And even if the order is wrong -- when exactly will that confuse us?

I frequently browse ChangeLog files to find out what was the sequence of 
changes, when some change breaks some feature.  So I think the dates 
should be in monotonous order, like they have been until now.

Also, it is confusing if the dates in CVS and in the change log are very 
different.

> I only ever use ChangeLog entries when I want to answer questions like
> "what where the recent changes related to file/variable/function foo"
> -- and for that, there need only be a very rough ordering of items.

Some changes interact, you know.