Sorry for the excessive change log.  I will trim them more in the future.

Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> This practice of committing with changelogs has got to stop.  People have
> asked why I think it's a stupid idea and have "suggested" that I do so in my
> commits, and I'm continuing to refuse to do so.  Attached you'll find a
> perfect counterexample that shows how unreasonable this policy is.
> 
> All this does is add a lot more clutter to CVS files, and has very little
> advantage otherwise.  Remember that if you commit with a big commit message,
> *every* file touched with that commit grows by that amount in the CVS
> repository.
> 
> Leave documentation files to provide documentation.  That's not what CVS
> commit logs are meant to hold.  If you want more descriptive change log
> entries, how about a short manually written note that describes why a
> package is added or upgraded?  (And yes, "many bug fixes" should be
> sufficient.)
> 
> : Module Name:	doc
> : Committed By:	nra
> : Date:		Tue Jul 10 17:53:18 UTC 2001
> :
> : Modified Files:
> : 	doc: pkg-CHANGES
> :
> : Log Message:
> : Note update of xpmroot to version 2.4.0.  PR #13374 by Martti Kuparinen.
> :
>   [*40K* of change log entries]
> 
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> -- Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>  *  Wasabi NetBSD:  Run with it.
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