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From: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why maintain old style ChangeLog?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:00:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44iq24i4ad.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.0.1284741168.28175.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:

> But back to the original question.
>
> Does need prepare ChangeLog entry for patch at current time?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but I suspect the answer should be 
"not in most environments, but definitely in some environments."

> And does need maintain ChangeLog at all in view
> of modern VCS tools?

In situations where someone may have access to the source code but not
the VCS, maintaining a changelog can be a very considerate thing to do.



       reply	other threads:[~2010-09-17 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.0.1284741168.28175.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-09-17 19:00 ` Lowell Gilbert [this message]
2010-09-17 23:58 ` Why maintain old style ChangeLog? Tim X
2010-12-09 17:24   ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 16:32 Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-09-17 16:42 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-17 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii

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