Dmitry Potapov wrote: > Having one file changed on almost every commit is not a good idea, and > not only because it will cause unnecessary conflicts but also it may > considerable increase the size of the whole repository. By default, the > delta compression has limit 50, which means that every 50 change of file > will become its full copy. If the changelog file is changed very often > and it is long, it may turn out that changelog alone takes as much space > as the rest of the source tree. That is certainly a good technical point, and I will certainly look into building a log parser after we wrap up our next release cycle. P.S. Linus, we ended up manually merging the NEWS file; in some cases there were branch specific changes in the file which would have been completely inappropriate with a union merge. Thank you for the suggestion, however. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
