From: Robert Kiesling <kiesling@earthlink.net>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IypmO-0004j8-9s@owl.gateway.2wire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712021405.16103.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
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> > FWIW, I agree completely - I've never found ChangeLogs useful, I hate
> > writing them, and I think the linux-kernel guys these days generally have
> > much better checkin messages than we do.
>
> I guess nobody really loves writing ChangeLog entries, but in my opinion there
> are quite effective "executive summaries" for the patches and helpful to the
> reader/reviewer. Please let's not throw the baby with the bath's water.
If there's a mechanism to filter checkin messages to ChangeLog summaries,
I would be happy to use it - in cases of multiple packages, especially, it's
important to know what changes were made, when, and when the changes propagated
through packages and releases, and where they got to, occasionally. Anybody
know of a useful, built-in mechanism for this task?
--
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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 10:05 Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 10:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-02 10:52 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:04 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2007-12-02 23:28 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-03 0:30 ` DJ Delorie
2007-12-03 4:06 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 4:51 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 14:41 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 11:43 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:28 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 12:43 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-12-02 13:05 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 14:27 ` Robert Kiesling [this message]
2007-12-02 20:52 ` tim
2007-12-03 2:41 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-02 23:29 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-02 20:28 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-02 20:36 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 20:40 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-02 22:55 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 0:21 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 6:16 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 13:29 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 15:48 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 16:20 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 16:50 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-03 17:26 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-04 22:10 ` Jeffrey Law
2007-12-16 3:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-16 10:25 ` NightStrike
2007-12-16 13:04 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-16 18:52 ` NightStrike
2007-12-25 19:35 ` Tim Josling
2007-12-26 1:05 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-26 2:17 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-26 2:31 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-26 4:53 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-26 6:00 ` Alexandre Oliva
2007-12-02 20:59 ` tim
2007-12-02 23:32 ` Robert Dewar
2007-12-03 6:02 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-03 3:55 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-02 23:31 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-12-02 20:23 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-03 6:45 ` Nicholas Nethercote
2007-12-03 9:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-02 10:27 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 10:43 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 10:50 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 11:14 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 11:32 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 11:48 ` Samuel Tardieu
2007-12-02 12:25 ` Eric Botcazou
2007-12-02 23:03 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-02 23:54 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-12-03 4:03 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 17:33 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 17:37 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 17:47 ` Bernd Schmidt
2007-12-03 17:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-12-03 18:20 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 18:51 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-03 18:58 ` Diego Novillo
2007-12-03 20:08 ` Tim Josling
2007-12-03 18:49 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-04 16:45 ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-05 23:16 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-05 23:35 ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-06 0:29 ` Ben Elliston
2007-12-06 9:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-06 0:42 ` Robert Dewar
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2007-12-02 18:33 ` Andi Kleen
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2007-12-03 12:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-04 4:03 ` Nicholas Nethercote
2007-12-04 13:05 ` Richard Kenner
2007-12-04 10:19 ` Robert Kiesling
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2007-12-03 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-03 16:38 ` Richard Kenner
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