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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.59 X-Spam-Score: -5.59 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 03FB1125B4 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx13.migadu.com X-TUID: dpcMvaVGvhPW 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