From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Nigko Yerden <nigko.yerden@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:28:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zi-ga50Kbd6e_7EE@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25f1f9c7-52fe-466a-8209-50c374f6c2be@gmail.com>
Am Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:10:14AM +0500 schrieb Nigko Yerden:
> I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs.
> According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs
> square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition
> is specified inside '[ ]'. However looking over the commit history I mostly
> see another usage of '[ ]' for specifying the name of a record field which
> content is being changed.
It looks like we have created our own conventions that have diverged
from the GNU changelog format. That sounds okay to me.
Andreas
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2024-04-23 6:10 Change logs: usage of square brackets Nigko Yerden
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