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

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