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Restrict documentation change log
waiver to only apply to ChangeLog files.
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@ -448,12 +448,10 @@ alias for scm_map that guarantees the order in which we process list
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elements, but we're not changing scm_map at all --- it's appropriate
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to use the Scheme name in the log entry.
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- There's no need to keep a change log for documentation files. This
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is because documentation is not susceptible to bugs that are hard to
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fix. Documentation does not consist of parts that must interact in a
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precisely engineered fashion; to correct an error, you need not know
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the history of the erroneous passage. (This is copied from the GNU
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coding standards.)
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- There's no need to keep a change log for a ChangeLog file. For any
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other kind of file (including documentation, since our documentation
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is indeed precisely engineered -- we surpass GNU standards here), add
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an appropriate ChangeLog entry when you change it. Simple!
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- Make sure you have papers from people before integrating their
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changes or contributions. This is very frustrating, but very
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