From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2396 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2002 14:15:45 -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 2386 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2002 14:15:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 14:15:40 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B643D63; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:13:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C9F309E.9020102@cygnus.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:15:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: cgd@broadcom.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFA] two MIPS opcodes patches to pull up to branch? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00460.txt.bz2 > On 24 Mar 2002 cgd@broadcom.com wrote: > > >> What's the format to be used for branch ChangeLogs? >> >> change log as originally committed (i.e., using original commit date)? >> new entry at top of file or sorted in by original date? etc. > > > For changes on the branch, you are supposed to modify the ChangeLog > files from the branch only. The date should be the date of the commit > (otherwise, the logs are not in chronological order, which makes it hard > to track change history). Yep > In other words, you should do the same as you do on the trunk. That's > why there's no mention of anything special in the branch policy text. If the dates will differ, it doesn't hurt to add a ``From '' or ``Import '' or ... enjoy, Andrew