Re: Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> The ChangeLog entry for this change is:
> 
>     revision 1.26
>     date: 1999/09/07 05:47:55;  author: law;  state: Exp;  lines: +142 -130
>     Merge in gcc2-ss-010999
> 
> This lack of detail was very annoying as I spent a lot more time than
> needed to verify that the differences I noticed in gen* were intentional.
> The diff from 1.25 to 1.26 is large enough to explain the change.
> Looking at ``cvs log gengenrtl.c'' I was unable to find any details on
> the "gcc2-ss-010999" branch.

Isn't the log message self-explanatory, at least to informed gcc
contributors? That is a merge from gcc2, which used to a project
different from the one that provided the current CVS archives.

One of the major reasons for starting the egcs project was that it was
so extremely difficult to locate the gcc2 source code - something
which you are suffering from right now. The problem has been corrected
today, but can't be corrected retroactively (sp?).

Regards,
Martin