From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21443 invoked by alias); 3 Jun 2004 07:05:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21387 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3D5F2858; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:05:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16490-01-8; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by nile.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1345) id BB222F2BD8; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 03:05:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Hilfinger To: mec.gnu@mindspring.com Cc: brobecker@gnat.com, eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20040603051228.E269F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> (mec.gnu@mindspring.com) Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Updates to Ada sources, part 1 (longish) References: <20040603051228.E269F4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Message-Id: <20040603070531.BB222F2BD8@nile.gnat.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 07:05:00 -0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at nile.gnat.com X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 > Speaking as a consumer of ChangeLogs, I would favor just importing > ChangeLog.GNAT into the FSF repository, with a note at the top of > it saying "these are changes from $date to $date done by ACT and > merged on 2004-06-02." And add a pointer to the libre.act-europe.fr > anonymous cvs repository so that if someone ever needs to do serious > history diving, like bug-search regression, they can do it. And include > a person's name and e-mail address to help somebody in 2005 or 2006 who > needs to figure out what happened. > > I don't see any need to merge ChangeLog.GNAT into the existing > ChangeLog files. I'd rather have a separate ChangeLog.GNAT file to > reflect the separate line of development. This sounds like a fine idea. I did not include our change history into ChangeLog, because it is not a history of changes found anywhere in the public repository. A separate file for this purpose sounds like just the thing. Paul Hilfinger