Can you provide more info in ChangeLog?

[Dave Brolley]

Nick Clifton wrote:

> HI Guys,
>
> Ben Elliston wrote:
>
>> I had thought that Nick was suggesting that you need not supply all of
>> the ChangeLog entries for *new* files.  For those, you can simply create
>> a ChangeLog entry that says "foo.c: New file".
>>
>> For any existing file that your patches modify, I have always worked on
>> the basis that the internal revision history is of little significance.
>> For those files, you should diff against the mainline and provide
>> ChangeLog entries as usual (that is, provide a ChangeLog entry that
>> encompasses all of the changes that were made in private).
>
>
> Yes indeed, that is exactly what I meant.  Dave - I apologise for the 
> confusion my original remark created.
>
OK -- coming up...