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Re: changelog rotation...
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:
Stan> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> I can also suggest alternative schemes that you might want to
>> consider. One possibility is to rename the files to ChangeLog.1,
>> ChangeLog.2, ChangeLog.3, etc., starting with the oldest one. This is
>> what Emacs does in its distribution.
Stan> Now that I'm working on GCC, I find that this is more puzzling
Stan> than the GDB scheme; the names give no information beyond that the
Stan> file has been split.
>> If we do put each version on its own ChangeLog, we could have
>> ChangeLog.418, ChangeLog.500, etc.
Stan> I really like this idea.
I actually like the split-by-year scheme. This tends to place about
the right number of entries in each file regardless of whether there
are six months or two years between GDB releases. It makes it easy
to go from the mailing list archives to the cooresponding ChangeLog
file without any guessing.
--jtc
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