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Re: ChangeLog conventions
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> Something like this:
>
> Index: codingconventions.html
Thanks! Based on your patch, I committed the following:
Index: codingconventions.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/codingconventions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -3 -p -r1.18 codingconventions.html
--- codingconventions.html 7 Dec 2002 13:51:44 -0000 1.18
+++ codingconventions.html 13 Feb 2003 17:48:01 -0000
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ in comments rather than the ChangeLog, t
description of the changes may be useful above the ChangeLog entry for
a large batch of changes.</p>
+<p>For changes that are ported from another branch, we recommend to
+use a single entry whose body contains a verbatim copy of the original
+entries describing the changes on that branch, possibly preceded by a
+single-line overall description of the changes.</p>
+
<p>There is no established convention on when ChangeLog entries are to
be made for testsuite changes; see messages <a
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-09/msg00287.html";>1</a> and <a