Re: Position of conditionals in ChangeLog

[Bruno Haible]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Where is this "logic" explained in the GCS?  Since it is not how any
> of the tools we have at hand work, or differentiate things.

Which tools do you mean? Personally I write my ChangeLog entries by hand,
and don't have tools that analyze them (other than searching for substrings).

> Nor is it something I've ever heard of before.

Me too, I was only aware of the second form. The first form is quite rare:

$ cd emacs
$ fgrep '] (' ChangeLog.? | wc -l
21
$ fgrep ') [' ChangeLog.? | wc -l
820

Bruno