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    I tend to believe the opposite: the description of small changes are easier
    to understand than description of combined changes.

The usual simplification is to replace

        * foo.c (fooo_bar): Call mumble.
	...
	* foo.c (fooo_bar): New function

with

	* foo.c (fooo_bar): New function

since (from the point of view of the trunk) the whole
thing is new.