Re: [PATCH 0/2] CGEN unordered fpu compares + fixes

[Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:51:38AM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>     
>     > Or did we stop maintaining the change log when moving to git (I would have no
>     > problem with that myself ;) )?
>     
>     I'm not sure who is in a position to make an executive decision in the
>     matter.  I'm for it myself.  Is there someone who wishes to speak up
>     in defense of ChangeLog files?
>     
> I have been suffering ChangeLogs myself for a long time, and it would be
> great to stop maintaining them by hand.  IMO we should do whatever is
> done in binutils, to not jeopardize a possible future integration.
> Ditto for becoming official GNU software.

For binutils we maintain the ChangeLog.  I suggest keeping it until there is a
consensus on all GNU projects.  It does help with grepping things sometimes.

Note, a tool I use to maintain the ChangeLog is:

 - https://github.com/simark/gnu-changelog-tools

The idea with this tool is that you maintain your changelog entry in your git
commit messages until you are about to commit.  When you want to push your
changes up to git just run a rebase...:

  $ EDITOR=/bin/true git rebase master -i --exec changelog-git-amend.py

And it will put the right date and copy the changelog from the git commit
message to the ChangeLog file at needed.

-Stafford