Re: Subdir ChangeLogs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:26:36 -0700
> From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
> CC: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:
> >>>>>>             
> >
> > Tom> Any comment on this?
> >
> > Stan> I thought I did...
> >
> > Oops, sorry Stan.
> >
> > Tom> The concrete proposal is:
> > Tom> * Rename gdb/doc/ChangeLog -> gdb/doc/ChangeLog.old
> >
> > Stan> Yes.
> >
> > Is that an official ok?  Or just agreement?
> >   
> Since it affects everybody's workflow, I'd like to see at least one more 
> opinion.

You asked for opinions, so here's mine: I don't really understand why
we'd want to do this.  The only reason I heard so far was that it will
help when source and doc files are committed together.  But people do
this all the time, and the CVS logs clearly show the entire changeset,
so I don't see the advantage.

Many other GNU projects have separate ChangeLog files for the
documentation.  I have never heard any other project that I was
involved with merging them back into the source logs.

That said, I'm not going to fight against this if it is what everyone
else wants.