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ChangeLog.3 in master


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: ChangeLog.3 in master
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:01:51 -0800
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I merged emacs-25 into master again today. This time, I attempted to cleanup the ChangeLog.2 mess in master, by creating a file ChangeLog.3 (only in master) which attempts to keep log entries for the master branch. The emacs-25 branch does not have a ChangeLog.3 file. The master and emacs-25 branches should have identical ChangeLog.2 files immediately after merging emacs-25 into master, because there should be no reason to change ChangeLog.2 in master. (I hope this is all clear. :-)

Undoubtedly there will be further problems in this area, as the ChangeLog stuff is still way too awkward. I'm mildly inclined to stop updating ChangeLog files in the repository, and ask developers to use something like 'make ChangeLog' if they want more-recent entries. I realize not everyone agrees; on the other hand, ChangeLog.2 was becoming fairly confusing in the master branch and ChangeLog.3 is not that much better.




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