gcc/gcc ChangeLog cfgrtl.c testsuite/ChangeLog ...

[Mike Stump]

On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 01:43 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> This commit brings a change of ChangeLog date format in old entries in
>> gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog over to the 3.3 branch.  Why was this 
>> included as
>> part of an unrelated commit, was the original mainline change 
>> mentioned on
>> the lists (I may have missed it), and why only some ChangeLogs but not
>> e.g. gcc/f/ChangeLog (which still has the magic comments at the 
>> bottom so
>> emacs uses the old format by default when adding entries to it)?
>
> I have an emacs write-contents-hook for change logs which
> canonicalizes the whole file on the new date format.  This was an
> experiment and if people don't like it I'll stop using it.

I've been known to canonicalize whole ChangeLog files (in various ways) 
before.  I think it is good, but maybe that's just me.  gcc/f can 
change...  :-)  Personally, I would like to see them all in the same 
(new) format.