From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: splitting ChangeLogs Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k4f8uls8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302062492 13198 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 04:01:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 04:01:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 06:01:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Jvs-0004MV-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:01:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7Jvr-0000cX-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40941 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7Jvn-0000cR-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Jvm-0001Ox-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Jvm-0001Ot-35 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55873) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Jvk-0001VD-Dj; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:01:20 -0400 X-Spook: Arnett CID Zachawi AUTODIN Skipjack ARPA eavesdropping X-Ran: \[u.rbhua%>h!)nZ!(?r?`?e~DOz$?n?1f[a1#xQS7$R6ykt_M76Pw"C?WkJz'^dWY@6)< X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83k4f8uls8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:00:07 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:138210 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> copy ChangeLog Changelog.11 >> ;; edit and trim both files >> bzr add ChangeLog.11 >> bzr commit -m "..." >> >> or >> >> bzr mv ChangeLog ChangeLog.11 >> copy ChangeLog.11 ChangeLog >> ;; edit and trim both files >> bzr add ChangeLog >> bzr commit -m "..." > > The latter, I think. Shouldn't ChangeLog should keep its current file-id, so that eg merged entries from emacs-23 go to the correct file? The current lisp/ChangeLog has a log that goes back to 1999. PS Why does it matter if ChangeLogs get larger than 1MB?