Hi Brian,

can you say a few words about b994d855dbd2 just for the historical record?

Such changes deep down in HOL easily cause odd problems later on, so the one doing the bisection in some years might need more info via the mail archive.


I would also like to take the opportunity to recall our most basic changelog conventions:

  each item on a separate line;
  items ordered roughly by importance;

For some reason, many people have started to sequeze everything in a single line (frequent), or imitate the headline/body text format of other projects with a completely different structure (rare). The reason might be as profane as the default web style of Mercurial, but at least on http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle the display follows the usual Isabelle format.

I spend a good portion of my time inspecting changesets, not just the incoming ones, but also really old ones when sorting out problems. So the little extra care when composing changelogs will help a lot in the overall process.

The recent crash of find_theorems due to b654fa27fbc4 is just one example that changes deep in the system need routine reviewing. It's on my list for several weeks, but I did not find the time to look at it so far.


        Makarius
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