Re: [patch] more comment cleanups

Joel Brobecker
2011-01-03T08:06:28Z

> > Whatever we decide for
> > ChangeLogs does not matter to me; in fact, I think they should be
> > abolished. They are the single-most source of conflicts as far as
> > patch merging is concerned.
>
> There's the git-merge-changelog (from gnulib, I think) to take good
> care of that.

That could be useful indeed. The solution we use at AdaCore is to write
these entries only when checking in the CVS tree at sourceware. Internally,
we no longer use the ChangeLog (the information is stored inside the
revision log).

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Joel