From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23671 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2006 16:29:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 23655 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Mar 2006 16:29:56 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ns1.datawave.net (HELO top.elctech.com) (216.64.158.130) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:29:55 +0000 Received: from [192.168.123.15] (ip68-6-99-84.sb.sd.cox.net [68.6.99.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by top.elctech.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2LGQfU7025706; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:26:41 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.3.060209 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:52:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [patch-readline] history file reading From: "Brian J. Fox" To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Denis PILAT , Chet Ramey CC: Eli Zaretskii , , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060321145842.GA25689@nevyn.them.org> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:58:42 -0500 > To: Denis PILAT , Chet Ramey > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , , > > Subject: Re: [patch-readline] history file reading > > Our ChangeLog entries have two spaces between date and name, and two > between name and date. The indented portion starts with a tab on every > line. The first character should usually be capitalized. Also, they > cover only "what" and not "why". Since when do ChangeLog entries not say "why"? Without this information, it is impossible to tell if the change needs to stay or not in the future. I've certainly always included "why" in my ChangeLog entries. Is this a personal preference, or are you quoting a new GNU mantra? Thanks, Brian