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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 18/26]   uprobes: slot allocation.
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On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 18:02 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> I used to keep the changelog after the marker after Christoph Hellwig
> had suggested that https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/20/5
> However "stg export" removes lines after the --- marker. 

That's no excuse for writing shitty changelogs. Version logs contain the
incremental changes in each version, but the changelog should be a full
and proper description of the patch, irrespective of how many iterations
and changes it has undergone.