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--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
-Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
-changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
-detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
-patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
-individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
-pod/perlhack.pod for the details.
+For an overview of what's changed in this release, see pod/perldelta.pod.
 
-For information on what's new in this release, see pod/perldelta.pod.
+For the details of changes in previous releases, see the individual
+perlNNNdelta.pod files. For example, pod/perl588delta.pod describes the
+changes between versions 5.8.7 and 5.8.8.
 
-[The "CAST AND CREW" list has been moved to AUTHORS.]
+For a list of contributors to perl, see AUTHORS.
 
-NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
-repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
-happened in; and the affected files.  The file lists have a short symbolic
-indicator:
+If you need a detailed commit history (i.e. descriptions of each
+individual commit),  you can view the git version control history online
+at http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git (follow the 'shortlog' link beside
+the relevant tag). Or, you can download a copy of the git repository and
+then run a command like
 
-           !       modified
-           +       added
-           -       deleted
-           +>      branched (from elsewhere)
-           !>      merged changes (from elsewhere)
+    git log --name-status v5.12.0..v5.14.0
 
-The Message-Ids in the change entries refer to the email messages sent
-to the perl5-porters mailing list.  You can retrieve the messages for
-example from http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
+to view all the changes between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0.
 
---------------
-Version v5.9.X         Development release working toward v5.10
---------------
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17787] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  19:22:27
-        Log: fix for:
-             Subject: [perl #16773] "abc" =~ /(ab)()(c)??/ broken
-             From: (Randal L. Schwartz) (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 26 Aug 2002 15:01:36 -0000
-             Message-Id: <rt-16773-35748.5.13188490159294@bugs6.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! regexec.c t/op/re_tests
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17786] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  15:34:25
-        Log: Subject: CPAN Upload: S/SB/SBURKE/Test-1.21.tar.gz
-             From: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>
-             Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:38:19 -0600
-             Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.1.20020826043702.022ca320@mail.spinn.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Test.pm lib/Test/t/fail.t lib/Test/t/mix.t
-          ! lib/Test/t/todo.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17785] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  15:18:41
-        Log: fix non-ANSI C++-style comment
-             Subject: [ PATCH ]  Smoke 17780 /pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-current
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:15:18 +0200
-             Message-Id: <20020826090145.6975.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/Storable/Storable.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17784] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  15:15:19
-        Log: #17780 relies on unixy paths to locate own directory for bignum tests.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/bignum/t/biinfnan.t lib/bignum/t/bninfnan.t
-          ! lib/bignum/t/brinfnan.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17783] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  15:07:21
-        Log: Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Test::Simple 0.47
-             From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
-             Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:13:03 -0700
-             Message-ID: <20020826111303.GJ758@ool-18b93024.dyn.optonline.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          + lib/Test/Simple/t/details.t lib/Test/Simple/t/fork.t
-          + lib/Test/Simple/t/has_plan.t lib/Test/Simple/t/has_plan2.t
-          + lib/Test/Simple/t/ok_obj.t
-          + t/lib/Test/Simple/sample_tests/pre_plan_death.plx
-          ! lib/Test/Builder.pm lib/Test/More.pm lib/Test/Simple.pm
-          ! lib/Test/Simple/Changes lib/Test/Simple/t/exit.t
-          ! lib/Test/Simple/t/plan.t lib/Test/Simple/t/threads.t
-          ! lib/Test/Tutorial.pod t/lib/TieOut.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17782] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  15:00:55
-        Log: new test for change #17773
-             Subject: lib/Pod/t/htmlview.t and lib/Pod/t/htmlview.pod patch (to account for the Pod::Html patch)
-             From: DH <crazyinsomniac@yahoo.com>
-             Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
-             Message-ID: <20020826083627.46199.qmail@web40207.mail.yahoo.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Pod/t/htmlview.pod lib/Pod/t/htmlview.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17781] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/26  14:48:35
-        Log: #17775 changed reentr.c instead of reentr.pl, which generates it
-     Branch: perl
-          ! reentr.pl
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17780] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  19:03:50
-        Log: fix bignum test failures
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/bignum/t/biinfnan.t lib/bignum/t/bninfnan.t
-          ! lib/bignum/t/brinfnan.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17779] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  18:56:29
-        Log: upgrade bignum to v0.13: fix test failures and update docs
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/bignum.pm lib/bignum/t/bignum.t lib/bignum/t/bninfnan.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17778] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  18:43:06
-        Log: Subject: Encode 1.76 Released
-             From: Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>
-             Date: su elo 25, 2002  11:27:07 US/Eastern
-             Message-Id: <1DE68466-B83F-11D6-8805-0003939A104C@dan.co.jp>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/Encode/Changes ext/Encode/Encode.pm ext/Encode/bin/piconv
-          ! ext/Encode/encoding.pm ext/Encode/lib/Encode/Alias.pm
-          ! ext/Encode/lib/Encode/MIME/Header.pm
-          ! ext/Encode/t/big5-eten.utf ext/Encode/ucm/big5-eten.ucm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17777] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/25  18:42:46
-        Log: Fix parsing problems with the // operator.
-             Make // able to follow various unary operators used without
-             arguments or parens (shift, pop, getc, pos, readline,
-             readlink, undef, umask, and the filetest operators), as
-             well as the <FH> operator.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! perl.h t/op/dor.t toke.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17776] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  15:56:37
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] ExtUtils::Constant 0.13
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:21:12 +0100
-             Message-ID: <20020823182111.GA281@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17775] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  15:46:28
-        Log: Subject: [perl #16729] crypt() doesn't work in multithreaded perl
-             From: "mls@suse.de (via RT)" <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 23 Aug 2002 15:24:39 -0000
-             Message-Id: <rt-16729-35555.9.25145891475907@bugs6.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! reentr.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17774] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  15:29:42
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH lib/Benchmark.(pm|t)]  Make cmpthese work as documented.
-             From: Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
-             Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 04:10:39 -0700
-             Message-ID: <20020822041039.A2089@ucan.foad.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Benchmark.pm lib/Benchmark.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17773] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  15:17:16
-        Log: Subject: Re: a bugfix for Pod::Html (in diff -u format)
-             From: DH <crazyinsomniac@yahoo.com>
-             Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 02:32:50 -0700 (PDT)
-             Message-ID: <20020822093250.30523.qmail@web40205.mail.yahoo.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17772] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  14:49:37
-        Log: Subject: Re: p5p patches
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:27:48 +0200
-             Message-Id: <20020823152535.D3EA.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Porting/patching.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17771] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  14:45:46
-        Log: Subject: Newdated info for HP-UX
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:20:17 +0200
-             Message-Id: <20020821201737.697B.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! README.hpux
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17770] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  14:26:36
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] let perlfaq1.pod mention 5.8 as the current stable release
-             From: "Jos I. Boumans" <kane@cpan.org>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:55:51 +0200
-             Message-ID: <20020821124817.34761.qmail@onion.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlfaq1.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17769] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  14:16:50
-        Log: Subject: bit more for WinCE
-             From: "Vadim Konovalov" <vkonovalov@peterstar.ru>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:31:52 +0400
-             Message-ID: <000f01c24891$045c4990$2b5ec3d9@vad>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! wince/Makefile.ce wince/compile.bat wince/win32io.c
-          ! wince/wince.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17768] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  14:02:47
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] fix lib.pm's import() to accept readonly parameters
-             From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
-             Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:44:25 +0200
-             Message-ID: <20020820214425.GG16178@heechee.tobez.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/lib.t lib/lib_pm.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17767] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/25  13:52:08
-        Log: Subject: [perl #16281] patch to enable perldoc -n for MSWin32 (perl-5.8.0)
-             From: "Randy W. Sims" (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 18 Aug 2002 13:27:12 -0000
-             Message-Id: <rt-16281-34264.3.49471192322156@bugs6.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! utils/perldoc.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17766] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/24  20:33:05
-        Log: Subject: [perl #16737] [PATCH] Perl5.8.0 two simple typos in perlxstut  
-             From: Peter BARABAS (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 24 Aug 2002 08:16:19 -0000
-             Message-ID: <rt-16737-35573.3.51579548306248@bugs6.perl.org> 
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlxstut.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17765] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/24  19:03:52
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] remove 2 unit warnings from lib/Net/t/hostname.t
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:01:08 +0100
-             Message-ID: <20020824160107.GI280@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-             (plus a typo fix)
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Net/t/hostname.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17764] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/24  12:29:27
-        Log: a2p wasn't installed with -Dversiononly
-     Branch: perl
-          ! installperl
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17763] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/23  12:23:31
-        Log: #17747 caused bad free()s with PERL_DESTRUCT by calling newXS()
-             with a NULL subaddr. Fix that, and stop it happening again.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! op.c universal.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17762] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/23  11:02:35
-        Log: fixup threaded build for vstring changes
-     Branch: perl
-          ! universal.c util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17761] By: ams                                   on 2002/08/23  02:54:09
-        Log: Incorporate fix from JHI at:
-             http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16708
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.xs ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17760] By: ams                                   on 2002/08/23  01:30:46
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] PPPort IVSIZE and SvPV_nolen
-             From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
-             Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:29:09 +0300
-             Message-Id: <20020823022909.GC9135@lyta.hut.fi>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17759] By: ams                                   on 2002/08/23  01:27:23
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] x2p/str.c signedness nits
-             From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
-             Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:43:30 +0300
-             Message-Id: <20020822234330.GC31624@lyta.hut.fi>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! x2p/str.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17758] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  22:29:45
-        Log: bignum-0.12 updates from:
-             Subject: [ANNOUCNE] Big Math::Big* update
-             From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:02:09 +0200 (CEST)
-             Message-Id: <200208132121.g7DLLRV21408@crypt.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          + lib/bignum/t/biinfnan.t lib/bignum/t/bn_lite.t
-          + lib/bignum/t/bninfnan.t lib/bignum/t/br_lite.t
-          + lib/bignum/t/brinfnan.t lib/bignum/t/infnan.inc
-          ! MANIFEST lib/bigint.pm lib/bignum.pm lib/bignum/t/bignum.t
-          ! lib/bigrat.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17757] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  22:19:42
-        Log: new file for #17756
-     Branch: perl
-          ! MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17756] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  22:16:41
-        Log: Subject: ANNOUCNE: Math::BigRat v0.09
-             From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
-             Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:12:03 +0200 (CEST)
-             Message-Id: <200208141812.g7EICrV23771@crypt.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          + lib/Math/BigRat/t/big_ap.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigRat.pm lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigrat.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigratpm.inc
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17755] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  19:44:03
-        Log: new files from #17754
-     Branch: perl
-          + lib/Math/BigInt/Scalar.pm lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigints.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17754] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  19:42:58
-        Log: Subject: ANNOUNCE: Math-BigInt v1.62
-             From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:12:59 +0200 (CEST)
-             Message-Id: <200208211513.g7LFDUs02512@crypt.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! MANIFEST lib/Math/BigFloat.pm lib/Math/BigInt.pm
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mif.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintc.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.inc
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/calling.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/constant.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf.inc
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbf.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbi.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mif.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/upgrade.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/upgrade.t
-          ! lib/Math/BigInt/t/with_sub.t t/lib/Math/BigFloat/Subclass.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17753] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  12:05:57
-        Log: Subject: podlators 1.24 released
-             From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
-             Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 20:56:42 -0700
-             Message-ID: <ylbs8jff9h.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
-     Branch: perl
-          + lib/Pod/t/text-options.t
-          ! MANIFEST lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm
-          ! lib/Pod/t/basic.t pod/pod2text.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17752] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  11:13:17
-        Log: Subject: [Announce] Unicode::Collate 0.20 -> UCA version 9
-             From: SADAHIRO Tomoyuki <bqw10602@nifty.com>
-             Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:59:12 +0900
-             Message-Id: <20020726025828.B5E9.BQW10602@nifty.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Unicode/Collate.pm lib/Unicode/Collate/Changes
-          ! lib/Unicode/Collate/README lib/Unicode/Collate/keys.txt
-          ! lib/Unicode/Collate/t/test.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17751] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  11:08:35
-        Log: fix test failure from #17747
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/B/t/stash.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17750] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  10:46:19
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Fix DBM filters
-             From: "Paul Marquess" <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:40:49 +0100
-             Message-ID: <AIEAJICLCBDNAAOLLOKLAEHCFEAA.Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! XSUB.h ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap
-          ! ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs ext/GDBM_File/gdbm.t
-          ! ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.xs
-          ! ext/NDBM_File/ndbm.t ext/NDBM_File/typemap
-          ! ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/ODBM_File/odbm.t
-          ! ext/ODBM_File/typemap ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.xs
-          ! ext/SDBM_File/sdbm.t ext/SDBM_File/typemap
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17749] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  01:04:32
-        Log: avoid use of %caller::EXPORT
-             Subject: [PATCH] Re: question about Exporter::import
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:33:12 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020814203311.GD278@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Exporter.pm lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17748] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  00:54:03
-        Log: todo test for linux $0 modification
-             Subject: Re: [perl #16206] $0 in 5.8
-             From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
-             Date: 17 Aug 2002 21:32:37 +0200
-             Message-id: <87elcx2sdm.fsf@vran.herceg.de>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/op/magic.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17747] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/22  00:11:34
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Version object patch #1
-             From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
-             Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:51:46 -0400 (Wed 03:51 BST)
-             Message-id: <3D630042.6020407@rowman.com>
-             
-             Subject: Re: [REVISED PATCH] Magic v-strings
-             From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
-             Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:08:34 -0400 (20:08 BST)
-             Message-id: <3D63E532.7020305@rowman.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! sv.c t/op/ver.t universal.c util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17746] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  16:48:05
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Version object patch #1
-             From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
-             Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:06:21 -0400 (15:06 BST)
-             Message-id: <3D5BB55D.6090603@rowman.com>
-             and Message-id: <3D627D1A.4050607@rowman.com>
-             and t/lib/warnings/universal tweak to skip
-     Branch: perl
-          ! embed.fnc embed.h global.sym pod/perlapi.pod proto.h sv.h
-          ! t/lib/warnings/universal toke.c util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17745] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  16:27:01
-        Log: perldelta for #17727
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17744] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  15:34:36
-        Log: Subject: typo in perfunc.pod
-             From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl@research.att.com>
-             Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:45:31 -0400 (EDT) (13:45 BST)
-             Message-id: <200208191245.IAA20072@raptor.research.att.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17743] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  15:31:40
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix typos in perlpacktut
-             From: "Mr. Nobody" <mrnobo1024@yahoo.com>
-             Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (Sat 04:40 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020817034058.45633.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlpacktut.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17742] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  14:51:16
-        Log: Subject: [REVISED PATCH] Magic v-strings
-             From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
-             Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 15:56:22 -0400 (20:56 BST)
-             Message-id: <3D556FE6.6000404@rowman.com>
-             plus a bit of cleanup
-     Branch: perl
-          ! dump.c perl.h pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17741] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  14:20:16
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Storable and CODE references
-             From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
-             Date: 17 Aug 2002 21:58:03 +0200
-             Message-id: <87bs812r78.fsf@vran.herceg.de>
-     Branch: perl
-          + ext/Storable/t/code.t
-          ! MANIFEST ext/Storable/Storable.xs ext/Storable/t/forgive.t
-          ! ext/Storable/t/malice.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17740] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  14:07:56
-        Log: Clean up copy-on-write macros and debug facilities (new flag 'C').
-             Handle CoW in hashes:
-             Subject: Re: why would tr/// be performing hash copies?
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:17:01 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020818221700.GD294@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! hv.c perl.c perl.h pod/perlrun.pod sv.c sv.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17739] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/20  13:52:18
-        Log: Subject: Re: [perl #15326] Not OK: perl v5.8.0 on i686-linux-64int-ld 2.4.5
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:21:10 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020723092051.184C.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17738] By: nick                                  on 2002/08/20  07:13:52
-        Log: Integrate mainline
-     Branch: perlio
-          - vos/Makefile vos/build.cm vos/compile_perl.cm
-          - vos/config.alpha.def vos/config.alpha.h vos/config.ga.def
-          - vos/config.ga.h vos/config.pl vos/configure_perl.cm
-          - vos/install_perl.cm vos/perl.bind vos/test_vos_dummies.c
-          - vos/vos_dummies.c
-         !> (integrate 57 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17737] By: ams                                   on 2002/08/19  07:48:39
-        Log: Effect a speedy recovery from POD affected by (ahem, Australian)
-             negligence.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlrun.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17736] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  18:27:28
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: 5.8.0 sprintf (?) problem with floats?
-             From: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.com>
-             Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:31:07 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020816233107.E9388@fdgroup.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! numeric.c t/base/num.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17735] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  02:22:21
-        Log: Subject: Re: [perl #16198] pod tpyo in hostent.pm
-             From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:19:08 -0400 (Wed 02:19 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020814011909.22744.qmail@plover.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Net/hostent.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17734] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  02:20:05
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: Pod::Functions tpyo
-             From: Abe Timmerman <abe@ztreet.demon.nl>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:47:00 +0200
-             Message-id: <200208132347.00782.abe@ztreet.demon.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Pod/Functions.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17733] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  02:17:18
-        Log: Subject: Server rename revisited
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:19:03 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020813191821.DC98.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! README.hpux
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17732] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  02:11:49
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Remove old VOS build methods
-             From: Paul_GreenVOS@vos.stratus.com
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 02 10:25 edt (15:25 BST)
-             Message-id: <200208131426.KAA01012@mailhub1.stratus.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          - vos/Makefile vos/build.cm vos/compile_perl.cm
-          - vos/config.alpha.def vos/config.alpha.h vos/config.ga.def
-          - vos/config.ga.h vos/config.pl vos/configure_perl.cm
-          - vos/install_perl.cm vos/perl.bind vos/test_vos_dummies.c
-          - vos/vos_dummies.c
-          ! MANIFEST README.vos pod/perlport.pod vos/Changes
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17731] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  01:57:12
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Configure missing d_modflproto=''
-             From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:11:05 +0200
-             Message-id: <11417599086.20020813151105@familiehaase.de>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17730] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/18  01:41:33
-        Log: missing chunk from #17725 causes lib/constant.t test failures
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/constant.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17729] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  02:33:15
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Safe.pm documentation
-             From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
-             Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 19:30:38 +0200 (CEST)
-             Message-id: <200208101730.g7AHUc9p001668@vran.herceg.de>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/Opcode/Safe.pm pod/perlre.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17728] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  02:07:24
-        Log: Subject: Copy On Write
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
-             Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:10:35 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020815001035.A69079@plum.flirble.org>
-             specify "-Accflags='-DPERL_COPY_ON_WRITE'" to use
-     Branch: perl
-          ! doop.c dump.c embed.fnc embed.h mg.c pod/perlapi.pod pp.c
-          ! pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c sv.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17727] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  01:20:05
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH 5.7.3] Negative subscripts optionally passed to tied array methods
-             From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
-             Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:38:55 -0400 (Mon 04:38 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020415033855.6343.qmail@plover.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! av.c av.h pod/perltie.pod t/op/tiearray.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17726] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  01:17:09
-        Log: pp.c warns that sv may be used uninitialised in pp_delete()
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17725] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  00:51:19
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Remove pseudo-hashes (complete)
-             From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
-             Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:05:10 -0700 (21:05 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020806200510.GC31473@ool-18b93024.dyn.optonline.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! av.c doop.c dump.c embed.fnc embed.h ext/B/B/Concise.pm
-          ! global.sym lib/fields.pm lib/fields.t lib/overload.pm mg.c
-          ! op.c op.h pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlref.pod
-          ! pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/avhv.t t/op/hashwarn.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17724] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  00:27:33
-        Log: ext/B/defsubs.h also depends on the program that builds it
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/B/Makefile.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17723] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/17  00:10:24
-        Log: Subject: Re: deb.c compile time error (patchlevel 17721)
-             From: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.com>
-             Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:42:15 +0100
-             Message-ID: <20020813144215.G11939@fdgroup.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! embed.fnc embed.h global.sym proto.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17722] By: ams                                   on 2002/08/16  05:20:22
-        Log: Subject: Minor perlrun.pod patch
-             From: Iain Truskett <spoon@cpan.org>
-             Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:20:27 +1000
-             Message-Id: <20020816162027.D17196@eh.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlrun.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17721] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  12:17:19
-        Log: #17717 needed tests fixing up
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/op/chop.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17720] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  12:10:07
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: taint news
-             From: Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@rogers.com>
-             Date: 04 Aug 2002 00:28:58 EDT
-             Message-ID: <m3heibs0vp.fsf@cs839290-a.mtth.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>
-             missed patch fragment from Change #17676
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlsec.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17719] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  12:03:53
-        Log: Subject: [perl #15987] Tests fail when sources are under CVS control
-             From: Warren Jones (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 5 Aug 2002 19:08:50 -0000 (Mon 20:08 BST)
-             Message-id: <rt-15987-32864.15.6255441902154@bugs6.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/strict.t lib/warnings.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17718] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:57:17
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] add verbose stack display option, -Dvs
-             From: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.com>
-             Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:55:33 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020805005533.B26111@fdgroup.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! deb.c dump.c embed.fnc embed.h perl.c perl.h pod/perlapi.pod
-          ! pod/perlrun.pod proto.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17717] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:44:06
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH@8545] [ID 20000808.005] OP_REFGEN as an lvalue
-             From: Stephen McCamant <smcc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
-             Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:31:29 -0800 (PST)
-             Message-ID: <14963.32943.102669.67625@soda.csua.berkeley.edu>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! op.c t/op/chop.t t/op/ref.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17716] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:29:53
-        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20020713.001] chomp($data=<tied_fh>) strangeness.
-             From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
-             Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:44:02 +0100
-             Message-id: <200207131644.g6DGi2214456@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pp_hot.c t/op/tiehandle.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17715] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:28:26
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] better modfl detection
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:05:49 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020811190548.GK300@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Configure config_h.SH perl.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17714] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:26:23
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] perltodo.pod
-             From: Richard.Foley@t-online.de
-             Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:26:10 +0200
-             Message-id: <17dwY1-0spbdoC@fwd06.sul.t-online.com>
-             perlbug credits
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perltodo.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17713] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:24:44
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] gv_fullname3 as call to gv_fullname4
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:59:16 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020811155914.GE300@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! gv.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17712] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:23:06
-        Log: Subject: Re: Smoke 17703 /pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-current
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:25:20 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020812102347.AFB6.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-             gcc bug test needs -lm
-     Branch: perl
-          ! hints/hpux.sh
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17711] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:20:49
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH s2p] Small typo correction
-             From: "Newton, Philip" <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de>
-             Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:50:51 +0200
-             Message-id: <C9A98F2128EDD411B0920008C7B337A13DCE2B@hamsem01.de.gedas.vwg>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! x2p/s2p.PL
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17710] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/12  11:17:21
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] pod/perlfaq4.pod
-             From: Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
-             Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:52:02 -0700 (17:52 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020730095202.A6462@ucan.foad.org>
-             Add references to Regexp::Common.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17709] By: nick                                  on 2002/08/11  10:25:15
-        Log: Fix for [perl #15986] tell/seek misbehave for :crlf
-             Test from "Vadim Konovalov" <vkonovalov@peterstar.ru>
-             fix by Nick I-S based on study of problem based
-             on Vadim's analysis.
-     Branch: perlio
-          ! perlio.c t/io/crlf.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17708] By: nick                                  on 2002/08/11  10:22:36
-        Log: Integrate mainline.
-     Branch: perlio
-         +> pod/perl58delta.pod t/op/dor.t t/op/stash.t
-         !> (integrate 73 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17707] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/09  21:23:20
-        Log: Subject: New HP-UX itanium servers
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 13:25:57 +0200
-             Message-ID: <20020807132518.FCBF.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! README.hpux
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17706] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/09  21:00:41
-        Log: Subject: Re: missing lower range in {} regex 
-             From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl@research.att.com>
-             Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:48:55 -0400
-             Message-ID: <200208091648.MAA77577@raptor.research.att.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlre.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17705] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/08  20:57:59
-        Log: More tests for the attribute syntax, from the
-             attributes manpage.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/op/attrs.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17704] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/08  19:47:44
-        Log: Fix bug #16080 : an attribute list should end at '}'
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/op/attrs.t toke.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17703] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  15:30:12
-        Log: Update Changes
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17702] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  15:08:57
-        Log: Subject: Re: README.aix
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:30:29 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020730130812.48B9.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! README.aix
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17701] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  15:06:01
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: pp_sys.c compile failed..
-             From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
-             Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:42:07 -0400 (EDT) (15:42 BST)
-             Message-id: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10208061024250.5315-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! hints/aix.sh
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17700] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  15:02:57
-        Log: Subject: [DOC PATCH] perlipc.pod
-             From: Arjen Laarhoven <arjen@nl.demon.net>
-             Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:16:01 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020806121601.GK40785@aragorn.noc.nl.demon.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlipc.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17699] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:56:56
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: [perl #15898] coredump with variable our
-             From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
-             Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:44:21 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020802234421.11c62fe6.rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! op.c t/op/attrs.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17698] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:52:45
-        Log: Subject: [perl #16000] Configure -Dstatic_ext=foo builds foo as both static and dynamic
-             From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 6 Aug 2002 04:28:15 -0000 (Tue 05:28 BST)
-             Message-id: <rt-16000-32913.8.41582281961522@bugs6.perl.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Configure
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17697] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:49:00
-        Log: Subject: Doc patch for Class::Struct under 5.8.0
-             From: Damian Conway <damian@conway.org>
-             Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:03:14 +1000
-             Message-id: <3D471FCF.1C7C6E6B@conway.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Class/Struct.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17696] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:44:21
-        Log: Subject: Re: [perl #15523] Memory Leak in split with trailing empty elements
-             From: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
-             Date: 31 Jul 2002 09:50:06 +0200
-             Message-id: <87ado85ob5.fsf@vran.herceg.de>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17695] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:40:41
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: [perl #15479] perl 5.8.0 segfault
-             From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
-             Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:13:10 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020802001310.7e1dc694.rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
-     Branch: perl
-          + t/op/stash.t
-          ! MANIFEST perl.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17694] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:31:55
-        Log: Subject: Re: [RE-PATCH] Not OK: perl v5.8.0 on PA-RISC2.0 11.00
-             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
-             Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:04:02 +0200
-             Message-id: <20020731155005.4915.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! hints/hpux.sh
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17693] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:25:16
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm] Be less strict about what's POD.
-             From: Abigail <abigail@foad.org>
-             Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:52:52 -0700 (16:52 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020725085252.A2703@ucan.foad.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17692] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:20:05
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] README.jp and README.cn
-             From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
-             Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 07:05:11 +0800
-             Message-id: <20020724230511.GA1327@not.autrijus.org>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! README.cn README.jp
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17691] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/08  14:01:50
-        Log: Subject: [perl #15398] Usage::pod2usage looks for perldoc in $Config{bin} and not in $Config{scriptdir}
-             From: Henrik Tougaard (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org>
-             Date: 23 Jul 2002 13:45:49 -0000 (Tue 14:45 BST)
-             Message-id: <rt-15398-31095.6.30466042998663@perl>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17690] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/07  19:56:42
-        Log: Doc fix : the symbol for COPs wasn't documented.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! opcode.pl
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17689] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/06  20:45:30
-        Log: Subject: Re: no warnings 'io';
-             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@unfortu.net>
-             Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:49:55 +0100
-             Message-ID: <20020727204954.GB5117@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
-             
-             Plus a little bit of regression tests.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/lib/warnings/pp_hot util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17688] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/06  20:04:19
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] XS build fix for VMS
-             From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
-             Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 12:13:06 -0500
-             Message-ID: <a05111b07b97256e1c335@[172.16.52.1]>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! vms/descrip_mms.template
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17687] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/06  19:50:12
-        Log: PerlIO::scalar wasn't able to read from non-string
-             scalar ; now stringifies its argument.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! ext/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.xs ext/PerlIO/t/scalar.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17686] By: rgs                                   on 2002/08/06  19:10:51
-        Log: More regression tests for $^H and %^H.
-             Add a TODO test for eval "" preserving %^H.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/comp/hints.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17685] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  22:42:09
-        Log: Subject: Re: mention of "use sort" botched in perlfunc? + PATCH
-             From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl@research.att.com>
-             Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 12:13:32 -0400 (17:13 BST)
-             Message-id: <200207211613.MAA69505@raptor.research.att.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/sort.pm lib/sort.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17684] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  22:35:22
-        Log: Integrate from perlio: change #17653 fixes bug RT15283
-     Branch: perl
-         !> ext/PerlIO/via/via.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17683] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  22:26:45
-        Log: Integrate from maint-5.6/macperl via macperl
-             Changes 17660, 17661, 17662, 17663, 17664
-     Branch: perl
-         !> perl.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17682] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  15:04:54
-        Log: Subject: Defined-or patch (cleaned up)
-             From: "Brent Dax" <brentdax@cpan.org>
-             Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 05:41:52 -0700 (13:41 BST)
-             Message-id: <000001c234a1$d1ca72c0$6501a8c0@deepblue>
-     Branch: perl
-          + t/op/dor.t
-          ! MANIFEST embed.h ext/B/B/Deparse.pm ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
-          ! keywords.h keywords.pl op.c opcode.h opcode.pl opnames.h
-          ! perly.c perly.h perly.y perly_c.diff pod/perlop.pod pp.sym
-          ! pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_proto.h toke.c vms/perly_c.vms
-          ! vms/perly_h.vms
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17681] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  14:41:23
-        Log: typo
-     Branch: perl
-          ! keywords.h keywords.pl
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17680] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/05  14:33:39
-        Log: warn that keywords.h is generated
-     Branch: perl
-          ! keywords.h keywords.pl
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17679] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  23:40:22
-        Log: again: #17678 caused test failures in pod2html,
-             in which $1 could leak from previous regexp
-     Branch: perl
-          ! mg.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17678] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  15:34:19
-        Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20020704.001] my $foo = $1 won't taint $foo (with use re 'taint')
-             From: hv@crypt.org
-             Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 17:40:30 +0100
-             Message-id: <200208041640.g74GeUU25061@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! mg.c t/op/taint.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17677] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  15:25:25
-        Log: Main branch no longer needs op/taint.t version check.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! t/op/taint.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17676] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  15:14:09
-        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: taint news
-             From: Rick Delaney <rick.delaney@rogers.com>
-             Date: 04 Aug 2002 00:28:58 EDT
-             Message-ID: <m3heibs0vp.fsf@cs839290-a.mtth.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>
-             Ref: 20020208.005
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pp_sys.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17675] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  01:48:36
-        Log: Fix email address for Kragen Sitaker <kragen@pobox.com>.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! AUTHORS
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17674] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  01:30:11
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] AUTHORS
-             From: Colin Watson <colinw@zeus.com>
-             Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:54:37 +0100
-             Message-id: <20020725145437.GC4921@zeus.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! AUTHORS
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17673] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  01:27:36
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] AUTHORS
-             From: Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>
-             Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 22:56:12 -0400 (Sun 03:56 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020721025612.GB15958@pobox.com>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! AUTHORS
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17672] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  01:25:14
-        Log: Subject: Re: mention of "use sort" botched in perlfunc?
-             From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
-             Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:58 -0400 (18:49 BST)
-             Message-id: <20020720174958.GL362@ool-18b93024.dyn.optonline.net>
-     Branch: perl
-          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17671] By: hv                                    on 2002/08/04  01:11:32
-        Log: Change version from 5.8.0 to 5.9.0.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Configure NetWare/Makefile NetWare/config_H.wc
-          ! Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H README.win32 config_h.SH
-          ! cygwin/perlld.in epoc/config.sh epoc/createpkg.pl
-          ! hints/dgux.sh installperl lib/ExtUtils/MM_NW5.pm makedef.pl
-          ! patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
-          ! wince/Makefile.ce
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17670] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/30  03:19:03
-        Log: Silent warnings in MM_MacOS
-     Branch: maint-5.8/macperl
-          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_MacOS.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17669] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/30  03:18:47
-        Log: Silent warnings in MM_MacOS
-     Branch: macperl
-          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_MacOS.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17668] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/30  03:16:52
-        Log: Help fixes from Thomas Wegner
-     Branch: macperl
-          ! macos/macperl/BuildHelpIndex macos/macperl/MacPerl.podhelp
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! macos/macperl/BuildHelpIndex macos/macperl/MacPerl.podhelp
-     Branch: maint-5.8/macperl
-          ! macos/macperl/BuildHelpIndex macos/macperl/MacPerl.podhelp
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17667] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  20:42:43
-        Log: Integrate perl
-     Branch: macperl
-         +> Changes5.8 pod/perl58delta.pod
-         !> (integrate 36 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17666] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  20:04:54
-        Log: Integrate from maint-5.6/macperl
-             
-             Changes 17660, 17661, 17662, 17663, 17664
-     Branch: macperl
-          ! macos/ext/Mac/Dialogs/Dialogs.pm macos/lib/Mac/AETE/App.pm
-          ! macos/lib/Mac/AETE/Format/Glue.pm macos/lib/Mac/OSA/Simple.pm
-          ! macos/macperl/Droplets/gluemac.plx perl.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17665] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  19:39:58
-        Log: Integrate from maint-5.6/macperl
-             
-             Changes 17660, 17661, 17662, 17663, 17664
-     Branch: maint-5.8/macperl
-          ! macos/ext/Mac/Dialogs/Dialogs.pm macos/lib/Mac/AETE/App.pm
-          ! macos/lib/Mac/AETE/Format/Glue.pm macos/lib/Mac/OSA/Simple.pm
-          ! macos/macperl/Droplets/gluemac.plx perl.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17664] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  19:20:51
-        Log: Neglected to include old bugfix from main branch
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! perl.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17663] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:25:57
-        Log: Count line numbers properly in MacPerl app
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! perl.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17662] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:21:16
-        Log: Make Mac::Glue work to glue Mac OS X apps under Classic
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! macos/lib/Mac/AETE/App.pm macos/lib/Mac/AETE/Format/Glue.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17661] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:20:46
-        Log: gluemac failed with some paths
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! macos/macperl/Droplets/gluemac.plx
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17660] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:20:12
-        Log: Fix long-standing bug with popup menus not working in dialogs
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! macos/ext/Mac/Dialogs/Dialogs.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17659] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:19:00
-        Log: Update test script
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! macos/MacPerlTests.cmd
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17658] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:18:35
-        Log: Portability fixes for blib
-             (already in 5.8/5.9)
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! lib/blib.pm
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17657] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/29  18:17:54
-        Log: Minor test fixes
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-          ! t/lib/filespec.t t/op/magic.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17656] By: ams                                   on 2002/07/28  06:12:33
-        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Typo in regcomp.c
-             From: Chris Ball <chris@cpan.org>
-             Date: 26 Jul 2002 17:49:35 +0100
-             Message-Id: <868z3yzb6o.fsf@void.printf.net>
-             (With additional tweak to s_reginclasslen.)
-     Branch: perl
-          ! regcomp.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17655] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/25  20:37:16
-        Log: Upgrade to Unicode::Collate 0.20.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! lib/Unicode/Collate.pm lib/Unicode/Collate/Changes
-          ! lib/Unicode/Collate/README lib/Unicode/Collate/t/test.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17654] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/23  16:33:52
-        Log: Commas, schcommas.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17653] By: nick                                  on 2002/07/23  07:56:25
-        Log: Fix #15283 - binmode() was not passing mode
-             to PUSHED method called from PerlIO::via.
-     Branch: perlio
-          ! ext/PerlIO/via/via.xs
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17652] By: nick                                  on 2002/07/23  07:55:03
-        Log: Integrate mainline to just past perl5.8.0
-     Branch: perlio
-         +> Changes5.8
-         !> Changes MANIFEST
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17651] By: pudge                                 on 2002/07/23  03:24:35
-        Log: Integrate maint-5.6/perl
-     Branch: maint-5.6/macperl
-         +> t/win32/longpath.t
-         !> (integrate 35 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17650] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/22  15:27:48
-        Log: create macperl-5.8 branch
-     Branch: maint-5.8/macperl
-         +> (branch 3480 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17649] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/21  08:44:34
-        Log: Because of #17429.
-     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
-          ! pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17648] By: chip                                  on 2002/07/19  22:51:19
-        Log: Update Changes.  (Including incorrect change #.)
-     Branch: maint-5.005/perl
-          ! Changes
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17647] By: chip                                  on 2002/07/19  22:47:57
-        Log: ensure that hashes never attempt to malloc with a negative size
-             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
-             Subject: Re: [ID 20000421.002] Math::BigInt out of memory?
-     Branch: maint-5.005/perl
-          ! hv.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17646] By: chip                                  on 2002/07/19  20:15:23
-        Log: Update Changes in preparation for 5.005_04.
-     Branch: maint-5.005/perl
-          ! Changes
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17645] By: gsar                                  on 2002/07/19  19:29:57
-        Log: create maint-5.8 branch from perl/...@17638
-     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
-         +> (branch 2829 files)
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17644] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/19  18:55:18
-        Log: Copy perldelta as perl58delta, purge the perldelta.
-     Branch: perl
-          + pod/perl58delta.pod
-          ! MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17642] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/19  16:37:39
-        Log: Update Changes; mainly to get the DEVELNNNNN stamp back in business.
-     Branch: perl
-          ! Changes patchlevel.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17641] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/19  16:31:08
-        Log: Integrate perlio (no changes, but that's fine).
-     Branch: perl
-         !> embed.fnc perl.h
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17640] By: nick                                  on 2002/07/19  07:09:37
-        Log: Integrate mainline@17638, apply couple
-             of whitespace edits so matches perl5.8.0 exactly.
-     Branch: perlio
-          ! embed.fnc perl.h
-         !> AUTHORS Changes Configure INSTALL NetWare/Makefile
-         !> NetWare/t/NWScripts.pl Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
-         !> lib/File/stat.pm patchlevel.h pod/perldelta.pod
-         !> pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlthrtut.pod
-         !> pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod util.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 17639] By: jhi                                   on 2002/07/19  00:47:18
-        Log: It's all yours, Hugo.
-     Branch: perl
-          + Changes5.8
-          ! Changes MANIFEST
+See pod/perlgit.pod for more details on using git and accessing the
+commit history.
+
+In perl releases prior to 2009, the source tarball included a collection
+of Changes files that listed the individual commits that had gone into
+each release. Since these files had become very large, and since the
+same information is now freely available online, it was decided to remove
+them from subsequent releases.
+
+If you need access to these removed files, then they can be be found most
+recently in the 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 tarballs, at
+
+    http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.9.tar.gz
+    http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.10.0.tar.gz
+
+The contents of the files in question can mostly be regenerated using git
+commands. The following table shows the equivalents. Note that the files
+prior to Changes5.005 were not simple lists of commits, so can't be
+recreated just by running the git command. As it happens, even the latter
+ones are not exact equivalents. This is due to a combination of errors in
+the original Changes files, and "impedance mismatches" when the previous
+version control data was imported into git in December 2008.
+
+For example, the Changes5.005 file includes 206 spurious entries from the
+maint5.004 Perforce branch.
+
+Running the following command with the range argument shown in the table
+will produce *approximately* the same list of changes in the specified
+file shown from the listed tarball.
+
+    git log --name-status <range>
+
+  file           tarball  <range> argument to 'git log'
+  ------------   ------   --------------------------------
+  Changes5.000   Either   N/A
+  Changes5.001   Either   perl-5.000..perl-5.001
+  Changes5.002   Either   perl-5.001..perl-5.002
+  Changes5.003   Either   perl-5.002..perl-5.003
+  Changes5.004   Either   perl-5.003..perl-5.004
+  Changes5.005   Either   perl-5.004..perl-5.005_03
+  Changes5.6     Either   perl-5.005_03..perl-5.6.0
+  Changes5.8     Either   perl-5.6.0..perl-5.8.0
+  Changes5.8.1   5.8.9    perl-5.8.0..perl-5.8.1 ^1ede746b
+  Changes5.8.2   5.8.9    perl-5.8.1..perl-5.8.2
+  Changes5.8.3   5.8.9    perl-5.8.2..perl-5.8.3
+  Changes5.8.4   5.8.9    perl-5.8.3..perl-5.8.4
+  Changes5.8.5   5.8.9    perl-5.8.4..perl-5.8.5 ^3a81978b
+  Changes5.8.6   5.8.9    perl-5.8.5..perl-5.8.6 ^498d59dd
+  Changes5.8.7   5.8.9    perl-5.8.6..perl-5.8.7
+  Changes5.8.8   5.8.9    perl-5.8.7..perl-5.8.8
+  Changes        5.8.9    perl-5.8.8..perl-5.8.9
+  Changes        5.10.0   perl-5.8.0..perl-5.10.0