Jon Steinhart <jon(_at_)fourwinds(_dot_)com> wrote:
Oh, since I'm probably about to go make some changes again, I had an
email from somebody a while ago who was upset that I wasn't updating
the Changelog when making changes. I wasn't doing it because I thought
that it was done automatically.
If it were done automatically, there probably wouldn't be any point in
doing it ;-).
What's the policy on this? Is it
supposed to be done automatically and is something broken? Should it
be updated manually every time a change is made? Or is is updated
manually before every release?
I don't know the particular policy for nmh, if there is one, but here is
how I create and use the ChangeLog entries.
Anyone who uses Emacs usually creates the ChangeLog entry first (using
C-x 4 a or similar tools) because the pcvs module uses the ChangeLog
entry when you check in the file.
If you add a function, for example, and add a ChangeLog entry for it,
and then find and fix a typo in the next day or two, there really isn't
a need to update the ChangeLog since it could be considered to be part
of the original change.
I use the ChangeLog entries in the MH-E project to create release notes,
so it's important that all pertinent information is in there. It's
probable that Ken uses it in the same way. A "cvs log" from the root is
less helpful since the log information is duplicated if you've checked
in more than one file in a single commit. That's why the ChangeLog is
important in a CVS environment. Now that I've started using Subversion,
I've stopped keeping ChangeLog files, since a "svn log" at the root
gives you the same information.
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