From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 72710 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2020 19:09:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 72694 invoked by uid 89); 13 Feb 2020 19:09:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-9.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=offline, HX-Languages-Length:570, H*i:sk:837e0qq, H*f:sk:837e0qq X-HELO: mailsec118.isp.belgacom.be Received: from mailsec118.isp.belgacom.be (HELO mailsec118.isp.belgacom.be) (195.238.20.114) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:09:28 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=skynet.be; i=@skynet.be; q=dns/txt; s=securemail; t=1581620968; x=1613156968; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CF8k01YxHubm6w5+GmMZMmu66KNbgABRTn2MkF1mMto=; b=rq4hs0v9Apl89pR+pVqLg3beVFmC4sjdyDE+hwRi2Af8NxnNOr0KqA1F 20+Bl055pwYhKyI4MvrmOCyk2dAyTQ==; IronPort-SDR: gbV4vLbNZ2dEApfL09zPkm2dEccM0TSZmT/u04Hj0p1QIz++txrqXMiXNW5ttlNIfe1cid58mz WCiRLOwLrNt8Azcn5vjv8DZbBdMd37AI1DwheoV69LAc661prG/K2WGhMFoqa5/D2dZVjT7fpT 1YNP+SVLWUxWiNel+B8kTFieXFANWYugXyETfd0Ql4lHCc4GyOj++gZRHphbwsaC57tIf/4rHS YGKI3yINHAilOtLNWgBe70AgSVZiDtGQ2fN5X7sbgKEModbuACi6Ed+UalO4C+3t6BuQ9kwnYT oPI= Received: from 156.47-242-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (HELO md) ([81.242.47.156]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256; 13 Feb 2020 20:09:23 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Using the vcs_to_changelog.py script From: Philippe Waroquiers To: Eli Zaretskii , Simon Marchi Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:09:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <837e0qqpps.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83imkbqhry.fsf@gnu.org> <83a75mqyry.fsf@gnu.org> <675991ee-28c0-ce5a-6327-c6ad80ccb1c3@polymtl.ca> <837e0qqpps.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.5-1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2020-02/txt/msg00308.txt.bz2 On Thu, 2020-02-13 at 20:58 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I have yet to see this accepted as GNU policy. And at least > personally, having a ChangeLog in a tarball that just says which > function was changed on what date is almost useless to me (and I do > sometimes need to work without access to the VCS repositories). It looks easy to have a script to generate a file that contains all the git log messages + the diff for each commit in case detailed changes have to be analysed off-line, without a git repository. Philippe