From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401151212.43847.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eh4941yu.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wednesday 15 January 2014 11:57:45 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:25:18 +0400
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> >
> > But even with this example, it isn't just a repeat.
>
> I didn't say it was just a repeat, I said most of it just repeats.
>
> > The text before the ChangeLog says what the intent of the patch is,
> > and provides extra information that usually doesn't go into the
> > ChangeLog entry. For example, it says "This makes it usable in more
> > places".
>
> Why not have this as part of the log entry. Here's an example (from
> Emacs):
i'd lobby for just stopping the ChangeLog practice altogether :)
-mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-15 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 12:12 Joel Brobecker
2014-01-15 15:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 15:51 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-15 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 16:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-15 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 17:12 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2014-01-15 19:48 ` Fred Cooke
2014-01-15 20:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 20:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 2:11 ` Alan Modra
2014-01-16 2:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-16 1:41 ` Fred Cooke
2014-01-16 2:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 16:50 ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-15 17:03 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-15 18:07 ` Gary Benson
2014-01-16 11:41 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2014-01-15 19:31 ` Cary Coutant
2014-01-15 19:45 ` Tom Tromey
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