[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] remove main CHANGELOG file

Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-04T21:41:40Z

Dear Kim Phillips,

In message <20100413211604.66841557.kim.phillips@freescale.com> you wrote:
> CHANGELOG is a duplicate of the u-boot project's git log: remove it.

No. Please re-read the archive why this file is kept.

> It is assumed that this file's only purpose is to serve non-git users
> downloading u-boot project source in the form of a tarball release. If
> that is the case, then the generation of the CHANGELOG file should occur
> at tarball release generation time, and not consume duplicate history,
> slowing things down and polluting grep match results for u-boot
> developers using git.

Slowing things down? C'me on.

Polluting grep results? Then exclude this file from grepping...

> u-boot project git history goes back to before u-boot 0.1.0, so remove
> CHANGELOG-before-U-Boot-1.1.5 file too.

NAK. My position about these files has not changed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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