I noticed that recent changes (merging from gettext, for example)
added many ChangeLog entries whose dates disagree with when the change
was installed into gnulib. Hence gnulib's ChangeLog file appears not
to be in reverse chronological order. This confused me.
When I merge changes from coreutils, I use the style indicated below,
which preserves the date of the original change, while also making it
clear when the change was merged into gnulib. This makes the gnulib
changelog easier to read, at least for me.
Any objection if I do something similar for the gettext etc. ChangeLog
entries in gnulib?
2006-07-03 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Merge from coreutils.
2006-06-30 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* xstrtod.c (XSTRTOD, DOUBLE): New macros, so that we can support
both double and long double versions.
(XSTRTOD): Renamed from xstrtod. Use DOUBLE internally.
* xstrtold.c: New file.
* xstrtod.h (xstrtold): New decl.
2006-05-22 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* filemode.c (setst): Remove.
(strmode): Rewrite to avoid setst. This makes the code shorter,
(arguably) clearer, and the generated code is a bit smaller on my
Debian GNU/Linux stable x86 host.
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