[Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

    Miles> Embedded changelongs are evil because they're usually
    Miles> _really long_, and so do significantly interfere with
    Miles> normal usage of the file (and for some reason people often
    Miles> put them at the _front_ of the file...).

They put them at the front because they want them read; they give the
recent bugfixes and feature additions.  Amalgamated separate
ChangeLogs (as used by Emacs, for example) make it hard to figure out
the recent history of any given file, especially if its not so recent.

If there's a standard convention, it's easy enough to extend
hide-copyleft, too.

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