From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: More consistency for Git log messages?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 08:19:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201230141958.GK2672@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43eb3d64-2d5d-cbc9-3e3e-e06eedc2704b@pfeifer.com>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:54:53AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Having spent a bit more time with GCC sources (as opposed to wwwdocs)
> recently and looking for prior art to guide me, I noticed there's a
> lot of options to specific the ChangeLog file(s) to use.
>
> And correspondingly a lot of inconsistency.
>
> Right now we seem to allow for
>
> 1. gcc/cp/ChangeLog
> 2. gcc/cp/ChangeLog:
> 3. gcc/cp
> 4. gcc/cp:
> 5. gcc/cp/
>
> and probably more.
>
> Can we streamline this a bit and converge on one of the forms 3-5?
>
> Personally I'd suggest 3 (the shortest) or 5 (the directory), but whatever
> ... as long as things become more consistent, which is easier on newbies
> and reading logs (or automatically processing them later on).
I have done 5 for many years. The colon isn't a great choice imo, the
changelog messages themselves contain colons as well, and it is nice to
have this visually distinct. "gcc/" looks a lot better than just "gcc"
(and similar for other dirs, but less bad). (I often left it out
completely if it would have been just gcc/, since it was just for
humans, pretty much all of the changelog format is not machine-parseable
without AI advances anyway, so heh).
But 1 and 2 are much worse indeed :-) Unnecessary words distract from
the actual content.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-30 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-28 23:54 Gerald Pfeifer
2020-12-29 8:49 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-12-30 21:34 ` Martin Sebor
2020-12-30 14:19 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-12-30 14:25 ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-30 14:49 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-01-06 8:23 ` Martin Liška
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