From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,
"gdb\@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: ChangeLog info missing ?
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pquoamxh.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <904677.30619.qm@web112502.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (paawan oza's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:06:22 -0700 (PDT)")
>>>>> ">" == paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com> writes:
>> but I am confused with outer Changelog because, if you see patch
>> mentioned in below mail, which if checked in, will go to '/Changelog'
>> in the root directory itself,
If someone applies a patch manually he usually has to know which
ChangeLog to modify. Ordinarily this isn't hard.
>> so in conclusion, appropriately correcting my understanding, each
>> directory has changelog and changelog file is only applicable to be
>> modified if developer has modified contents of that directory.
Yes. If you modify a file, you must modify the nearest ChangeLog. That
is, you start in the file's directory and go upwards until you find a
ChangeLog file.
>> Outer Changelog is never affected.
>> right ?
Yes.
Tom
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-01 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-23 6:44 paawan oza
2010-10-23 19:51 ` Michael Snyder
2010-10-23 20:02 ` Michael Snyder
2010-10-24 7:24 ` paawan oza
2010-11-01 18:56 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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