-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 information on what's new in this release, see pod/perldelta.pod.
-
-[The "CAST AND CREW" list has been moved to 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:
-
- ! modified
- + added
- - deleted
- +> branched (from elsewhere)
- !> merged changes (from elsewhere)
-
-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/
-
---------------
-Version v5.9.X Development release working toward v5.10
---------------
-____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 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
+For an overview of what's changed 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.
+
+For a list of contributors to perl, see AUTHORS.
+
+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
+
+ git log --name-status v5.12.0..v5.14.0
+
+to view all the changes between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0.
+
+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
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