Re: I broke the build

[Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Adam Megacz writes:
 > > FYI, you have to add a ChangeLog entry for every change, even one
 > > that just backs out an earlier change.
 > 
 > Oh, sorry about that. I'll make sure to do so in the future.
 > 
 > Actually, if that's the case, why is there duplicated information
 > between ChangeLog and the CVS history? Wouldn't just one of the two be
 > enough?

CVS has a failing in that changes are on a per-file basis rather than
a per-set of files basis.  You can't ask CVS for a list of changes to
this directory between two dates: or rather you can, but there's alot
of duplication.  ChangeLogs present the information in a much easier
to use format.

BTW, Subversion, (http://subversion.tigris.org/) the replacement for
CVS, will fix all this: each set of files checked in is a single
change to the repository.

Andrew.