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Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

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Message #27 received at 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de,
 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:11:26 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:53 +0100
> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de>, 
> 	20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch.  Symlinks
> > complicate VCS operations in general.
> 
> Does that hold even if NEWS is a symlink also on the release branch?

Yes, because it's a symlink to a different file.

> (FWIW, I also think it would be nice to switch to org-mode.)

Yep.

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