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   1 Emacs generally follows the GNU coding standards when it comes to ChangeLogs:
   2 http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html
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   4 One exception is that we still sometimes quote `like-this' (as the
   5 standards used to recommend) rather than 'like-this' (as they do now),
   6 because `...' is so widely used elsewhere in Emacs.
   7 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-05/msg00514.html
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  10 If installing changes written by someone else, make the ChangeLog
  11 entry in their name, not yours.
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  14 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00793.html
  15   There is no need to make change log entries for files such as NEWS,
  16   MAINTAINERS, and FOR-RELEASE.
  17 "There is no need" means you don't have to, but you can if you want to.
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  20 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-12/msg01135.html
  21   There is no need to indicate regeneration of files such as configure
  22   in ChangeLog.
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  25 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-11/msg00940.html
  26 Preferred form for several entries with the same content:
  27
  28    * help.el (view-lossage):
  29    * kmacro.el (kmacro-edit-lossage):
  30    * edmacro.el (edit-kbd-macro): Fix docstring, lossage is now 300 keys.
  31
  32 (Rather than anything involving "ditto" and suchlike.)