Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Furthermore, comments in the source code about why it does something are 
  > comments explaining things that are nonobvious about the current state of 
  > the source code, e.g. why a particular special case is needed.  They are 
  > not about how it got there.

They aren't??  Do you mean, you think GNU maintainers are not carrying out
what the coding standards say?

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