FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> The problem is that when you split file you loose some CVS history cause
> new file don't have all history.

I don't think that really matters.  cvs diff on ChangeLog isn't very
interesting.  It's much more important to convey the changes in a way
that's easy to understand.  

> Perhaps is better to start writing a new ChangeLog-0.82 in CVS HEAD and
> put a simple line in ChangeLog (that is update ChangeLog-0.82 directly).

That wasn't my intention.  I think ChangeLog in CVS HEAD holds changes
since the last release.  If the release is N, ChangeLog records changes to
N+1.  When N+1 is released, it's given a number, and the rows in ChangeLog
that apply to it are moved to a new file, ChangeLog-${N+1}.  When a
release is branched, ChangeLog is empty.  

In the CVS release branch, ChangeLog itself would be empty initially.  We
could log post-release changes to the release in there.  That makes sense
to me.  

It looks like 0.64 was branched at revision 1.1949 on Jan 11, 2006.  

I would like to move -- copy? -- all records from those ChangeLog files
into ChangeLog-0.82.  I would do this in HEAD and BRANCH0_82. 

(Memo to self: next project gets nicer looking branch tag names.  "Tag
names must start with an uppercase or lowercase letter and can contain
uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, `-', and `_'."  A name like
"Branch-0_82" would be easier to read.)

ChangeLog would then accumulate records until the next release, at which
time they would be *moved* to that release's ChangeLog-N file.  (I believe
I suggested 0.91 for that one.)

Regards, 

--jkl