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Glenn Morris writes:

 > 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.

Argh.  Got that backward, myself (git-thinking strikes!)  Yes, that's
the right thing to do.  ChangeLog.11 will presumably never change in
the future, so its identity is not terribly interesting.