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Re: [patch-readline] history file reading
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Brian J. Fox" <bfox at ai dot mit dot edu>
- Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, Denis PILAT <denis dot pilat at st dot com>, Chet Ramey <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>, <bash-maintainers at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:46:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch-readline] history file reading
- References: <C04569E0.30716%bfox@ai.mit.edu>
"Brian J. Fox" <bfox@ai.mit.edu> writes:
> Since when do ChangeLog entries not say "why"?
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Log-Concepts.html#Change-Log-Concepts
> Without this information, it is impossible to tell if the change needs
> to stay or not in the future.
"Why" should be written in a comment in the code, because that's where you
are looking at if you wonder why something is done this way.
Andreas.
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