From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6863 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2014 02:11:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6844 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jan 2014 02:11:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-pd0-f180.google.com Received: from mail-pd0-f180.google.com (HELO mail-pd0-f180.google.com) (209.85.192.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:10:59 +0000 Received: by mail-pd0-f180.google.com with SMTP id x10so614061pdj.25 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:58 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.67.5.233 with SMTP id cp9mr6463177pad.147.1389838258020; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubble.grove.modra.org ([101.166.26.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id dr1sm11121265pbc.18.2014.01.15.18.10.55 for (version=TLSv1.1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:10:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by bubble.grove.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E007FEA00C8; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:40:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:11:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mike Frysinger , fred.cooke@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git Message-ID: <20140116021051.GC5390@bubble.grove.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , Mike Frysinger , fred.cooke@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com, binutils@sourceware.org References: <20140115121251.GM4639@adacore.com> <201401151502.09189.vapier@gentoo.org> <83y52h2d5x.fsf@gnu.org> <201401151557.48453.vapier@gentoo.org> <83r4892brf.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83r4892brf.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00577.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:09:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This is still a GNU project, isn't it? We still adhere to GNU coding > standards, right? So I don't think we can avoid producing GNU-style > ChangeLog files. People have been putting the changelog entry in the git log. If that continues, it ought to be easy to generate a GNU ChangeLog by "git log | awk". I don't see any need for a ChangeLog in the source repository if we can generate one to be distributed along with the sources. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM