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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2011-02-22 19:50:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2011-02-22 19:50:04 -0800 |
| commit | 59af988b408a685b21600dedf0462298b8b7f16a (patch) | |
| tree | ecf677c6a8d2ef2b22d3683b88b91340fafc619b /admin/notes | |
| parent | 817b48a7bccb820203ae424aa14c559259a4f355 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-59af988b408a685b21600dedf0462298b8b7f16a.tar.gz | |
Add comments about fixing dates in merged ChangeLogs.
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| -rw-r--r-- | admin/notes/bzr | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/admin/notes/bzr b/admin/notes/bzr index 11f0af17a3b..11472e83fc3 100644 --- a/admin/notes/bzr +++ b/admin/notes/bzr @@ -112,9 +112,12 @@ and is due to a technical limitation of bzr. The log data for those revisions gets merged, the actual changes themselves do not. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-01/msg00609.html ) -Note that ChangeLog entries are automatically merged to the top with -today's date, but you still might want to check them to see that too -much is not being included, or whitespace between entries is not missing. +In particular, check the ChangeLog entries (eg in case too many +entries have been included or whitespace between entries needs fixing). +bzrmerge tries to fix up the dates to today's date, but it only does +this where there are conflicts. If you used the changelog_merge plugin, +there won't be any conflicts, and (at time of writing) you will need +to adjust dates by hand. Notes: |