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Format of NEWS (navigating in it)

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>, Ulrich.Windl <at> rz.uni-regensburg.de, stefan <at> marxist.se, 20403 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20403: Format of NEWS (navigating in it)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:19:40 -0400

>> The change I'd actually like to see is for NEWS to just be a symlink
>> to the appropriate NEWS.xx file, which should exist under that name
>> from the outset of development on version xx.
>
> That'd cause trouble when merging from the release branch.

I think the opposite.

At present, emacs26:etc/NEWS has to get merged to master:etc/NEWS.26.
This is a PITA at every single merge.

If the file was already called NEWS.26 on both branches,
all these merge problems would go away.

(This was previously proposed and rejected in https://debbugs.gnu.org/29366#30)

>  Symlinks complicate VCS operations in general.

Maybe on MS-Windows...

Maybe the etc/NEWS symlink doesn't even need to be versioned.
The build process could construct it based on the version number.

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