Re: [PATCH]: Updates to Ada sources, part 1 (longish)

Paul Hilfinger
2004-06-03T07:05:49Z

> 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