Ben Elliston <b...@au1.ibm.com> writes: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:31 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > >> * gcc-interface/Makefile.in (cygwin/mingw): Revert accidental >> EH_MECHANISM change in r130816. > > I've seen a few ChangeLog entries like this of late, so thought I would > raise something: is it now accepted practice to mention SVN revision > numbers in ChangeLog entries? I know it is convenient to do it, but (a) > we might switch version control systems again, and (b) people have been > known to work with FSF trees off-line or in other version control > systems where the FSF repository is not accessible.
I agree--please put in at least the date of the change being reverted, which should be the date of the ChangeLog entry. Ian