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Re: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation


On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:14:25PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> EMail: Ralf.Habacker@saght.tessag.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 5:51 PM
> > To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Problem with winsup/cinstall compilation
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:45:06PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Ralf, I've checked this in.
> > >>
> > >> However: Your changelog was atrocious.
> > >>
> > >> The changes are meant to be 'proper' sentences. That means
> > >> capitalisation is important, as is spelling.
> > >>
> > >> Next time I'll reject the patch and get you to fix it up. That wastes
> > >> time (yours) though, so I'd really prefer it if the changelog is
> > >> acceptable first time round.
> > >
> > >I have looked in the cygwin ChangeLog for making a proper ChangeLog, but don't recognized
> > >this details. Sorry
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/contrib.html
> >
> I have read this and I see many "what not to do statements" relating changelog. I think it
> would be easier and faster to read if some true examples are included at this page. :-)

Isn't the ChangeLog file itself *the* example?

Corinna

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