coreutils/ChangeLog, branch master

Remove ChangeLog, dividing its content into ChangeLog-200?

2008-02-10T09:44:47Z

* ChangeLog: Remove file. * ChangeLog-2005: Prepend the 2005 entries. * ChangeLog-2006: New file. * ChangeLog-2007: New file. * ChangeLog-2008: New file. Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering

* ChangeLog: Manually update copyright notice at bottom.

2008-02-10T09:44:47Z

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering

tests: move the very-expensive file into test-lib.sh

2008-02-09T09:30:33Z

* tests/very-expensive: Remove file. * tests/test-lib.sh (very_expensive_): New function. * tests/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove very-expensive. * tests/cp/perm: Call the new function, rather than sourcing the file. * tests/tail-2/assert: Likewise. * tests/tail-2/assert-2: Likewise. * tests/du/2g: Likewise.

We do need two different version files.

2008-02-07T22:31:17Z

One for tarball-only, the other to be updated any time we get a new value of $(VERSION). * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Create .tarball-version in dist tarball. * GNUmakefile (_curr-ver): Make git-version-gen use it. * .gitignore: Ignore it.

Fix a typo in description of size suffixes: s/GB/G/.

2008-02-07T22:06:28Z

* doc/coreutils.texi (od invocation, head invocation, tail invocation): Spotted by Bert Wesarg.

NEWS [6.9.90]: head, od, split and tail accept the standard size suffixes

2008-02-07T21:58:38Z

mkdir, split: write --verbose output to stdout, not stderr.

2008-02-07T07:26:48Z

* src/mkdir.c (verbose_output): New function. (announce_mkdir): Use it. * src/split.c (usage): Update. * src/split.c (cwrite): Write to stdout, not stderr. * doc/coreutils.texi (split invocation): Remove the mention of --verbose output being printed to stderr. * tests/mkdir/p-v: Redirect stdout, not stderr. * tests/misc/split-a: Likewise. * NEWS: Mention this change. * TODO: Remove this item.

Makefile.maint (announcement): Remove stale comment.

2008-02-04T12:24:01Z

Clarify a comment.

2008-02-02T08:04:24Z

* tests/sort/Test.pm: Replace a vague ChangeLog reference with a URL.

Improve wording of date and time man page.

2008-01-31T16:33:54Z

* man/date.x: Improve compact description of the --date=STRING. * man/touch.x: Likewise. Suggested by A. Costa.