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Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets
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Andreas Enge |
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Re: Change logs: usage of square brackets |
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Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:28:11 +0200 |
Am Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:10:14AM +0500 schrieb Nigko Yerden:
> I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs.
> According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs
> square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition
> is specified inside '[ ]'. However looking over the commit history I mostly
> see another usage of '[ ]' for specifying the name of a record field which
> content is being changed.
It looks like we have created our own conventions that have diverged
from the GNU changelog format. That sounds okay to me.
Andreas