Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Joseph Myers]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:

>   > by naming the entities most relevant to the point of the change but not 
>   > those that are only changed as part of some wider mechanical change, t
> 
> We often omit those.  For instance, by writing "all callers changed"
> instead of listing the callers by name.
> 
> Maybe we can extend this practice in some specific way
> if there is a proposal to consider.

Well, I think you'd need to allow things along the lines of the example I 
gave:

        * sysdeps/**/sys/ucontext.h [!__USE_MISC] (*): Rename to __* where 
        original name not reserved by POSIX, and update users of the 
        original identifiers.

to reflect the logical nature of a large change without going into the 
minutiae of similar but different changes to each identifier.  (But while 
that certainly cuts down the effort involved, I don't think the result 
actually adds anything to the free-form description of the change.)

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Joseph S. Myers
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