Re: splitting ChangeLogs

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>   copy ChangeLog Changelog.11
>>   ;; edit and trim both files
>>   bzr add ChangeLog.11
>>   bzr commit -m "..."
>> 
>> or
>> 
>>   bzr mv ChangeLog ChangeLog.11
>>   copy ChangeLog.11 ChangeLog
>>   ;; edit and trim both files
>>   bzr add ChangeLog
>>   bzr commit -m "..."
>
> The latter, I think.

Shouldn't ChangeLog should keep its current file-id, so that eg merged
entries from emacs-23 go to the correct file? The current lisp/ChangeLog
has a log that goes back to 1999.

PS Why does it matter if ChangeLogs get larger than 1MB?