On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > by naming the entities most relevant to the point of the change but not
> > those that are only changed as part of some wider mechanical change, t
>
> We often omit those. For instance, by writing "all callers changed"
> instead of listing the callers by name.
>
> Maybe we can extend this practice in some specific way
> if there is a proposal to consider.
Well, I think you'd need to allow things along the lines of the example I
gave:
* sysdeps/**/sys/ucontext.h [!__USE_MISC] (*): Rename to __* where
original name not reserved by POSIX, and update users of the
original identifiers.
to reflect the logical nature of a large change without going into the
minutiae of similar but different changes to each identifier. (But while
that certainly cuts down the effort involved, I don't think the result
actually adds anything to the free-form description of the change.)
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Joseph S. Myers
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