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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401151502.09189.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABZhLO9v0YpkkNdqbxiNTwe58veUWz4aNtQ1oei5A4tfL64KJQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 15 January 2014 14:48:51 Fred Cooke wrote:
> I'd be with you, Mike, but these packages are regularly distributed
> without source control, as tarballs, and as such it's useful.

i don't think it is, but let's assume you're right.  there's no reason the 
dist steps can't autogenerate a full ChangeLog from git history and throw it 
into the tarball.  it's what other GNU projects are doing now (like 
coreutils).
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15 20:02 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
2014-01-15 19:48         ` Fred Cooke
2014-01-15 20:02           ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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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