"Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> On 11/19/2014 08:04 PM, Yuri Khan wrote:
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>> What is the existing practice for such cases?
>
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> Existing practice elsewhere is to have just one generated ChangeLog file,
at the top level.  If we had done this for Emacs from day one, we'd have a
ChangeLog file of about 25 MB.  Although this would have been too large in
the old days, nowadays it's not such a big deal, as computers typically
have way more than 25 MB.  When I open a 25 MB ChangeLog file with Emacs,
it appears instantaneously on my screen, and I can navigate through it
without delays.
>
> I prefer having a single ChangeLog file to having smaller ChangeLog*
files in various locations, as it's a bit easier to scout through history
that way.  The patch that I've proposed in Bug#19113 doesn't go that far,
though; it merely arranges for future git commit messages to be copied into
the top-level ChangeLog.  Perhaps coalescing the historical ChangeLog files
could be done in a followon patch.

I agree. Also, there is a separate ChangeLog file in the lisp/erc
directory. How would I deal with this regarding this topic. Should it be
merged or removed?