Re: ChangeLog?

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>]

        I gather the documentation contradicts this position.

    No, it doesn't.  That was a misunderstanding.

    In Emacs, the approach we use is that all changes are listed in
    ChangeLog.

Which ChangeLog?  The Emacs CVS offers two ChangeLogs and in
    (emacs)Types of Log File
the Emacs manual says

    When you use version control, you can use just the per-file log if
    you wish, or you can use both kinds of logs.  ...

So I originally used the smaller, per-file ChangeLog.  Miles persuaded
me to add a comment to the larger ChangeLog, which I did.

Shall I change the documentation as I suggested to:

        emacs/man/files.texi   
        Types of Log File

    When you use a version control system that provides a per-file
    log, you should use @strong{both} the the per-file log and the
    more general @file{ChangeLog}.  This is because it is inconvenient
    or impossible for someone using a different version control system
    to access another version control system's per-file log.  This
    policy is different from the past, when you recorded small changes
    in the per-file log only.

    Typically you want to write just one entry for each change.  You
    can write the entry in @file{ChangeLog}, using the @kbd{C-x 4 a}
    command (@pxref{Change Log}), and then copy it to the log buffer
    when you check in the change.  Or you can write the entry in the
    log buffer while checking in the change, using the @kbd{C-x v v}
    command, and later use the @kbd{C-x v a} command to copy it to the
    more general @file{ChangeLog} (@pxref{Change Logs and VC}).

My hunch is that the current documentation is different than you
thought and that the changed documentation says what you mean.

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