Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: Actually, all I expect from the ChangeLog entry are two things: 1. Is the change interesting? Ie. if it is only changing white space, indentation, spelling I'll usually want to skip looking at that specific diff. 2. Something of a clue as to why the change was made. The two examples Hrvoje gives above are acceptable, IMO. I agree. Hrvoje has also made the suggestion that delimiting all the ChangeLog files with entries of the form: 1998-06-19 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.0-pre3 is released. would be useful. I agree and it would be even more useful to have the CVS tag included: 1998-06-19 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; * XEmacs 21.0-pre3 is released (r21-0b46).