[Python-checkins] CANNOT Patch 3.x NEWS [was cpython (2.7): Issue #14707: add news entry\

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/12/2013 1:50 AM, terry.reedy wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c162e2ff15bd
> changeset:   82624:c162e2ff15bd
> branch:      2.7
> parent:      82617:cd0191a9b5c9
> user:        Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> date:        Tue Mar 12 01:26:28 2013 -0400
> summary:
>    Issue #14707: add news entry
>
> files:
>    Misc/NEWS |  3 +++
>    1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> @@ -944,6 +944,9 @@
>   Documentation
>   -------------
>
> +- Issue #14707: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
> +  reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
> +
>   - Issue #16406: combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
>
>   - Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in

The above was easy. When I tried to transplant this patch to 3.2, export 
and import, or directly edit 3.2 NEWS with Notepad++ or IDLE, hg makes a 
319kb patch that deletes and add the entire file in chunks. I did not 
think I should commit and push that.

The failure of transplant and import are perhaps understandable because 
3.2 has a gratuitous case difference with /combine/Combine/.

- Issue #16406: Combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.

But the inability to make a proper diff from direct edit is something 
else. If I add just a single blank line, even that generates a mega 
patch. Same with 3.3 NEWS. I also tried deleting the file to make hg 
regenerate from the repository database.

Anyone have any idea what the problem is? Has anything changed with hg, 
windows, line endings and this text file in the last few months? I just 
pushed patches for about 20 scattered files in Docs, Lib, Modules, and 
Tools earlier today, so the problem seems to be specific to NEWS.

tjr