From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10419 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2014 02:17:10 -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 10388 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jan 2014 02:17:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:17:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1007116519; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:17:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PRb-Y719JHFd; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:17:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465D611651F; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:17:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 801DDE0816; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:17:02 +0400 (RET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 02:17:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Mike Frysinger , fred.cooke@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git Message-ID: <20140116021702.GN4762@adacore.com> 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/msg00578.txt.bz2 > > not necessarily. there's two options: > > - just use `git log --stat` and pipe it into a ChangeLog. this isn't a > > "GNU ChangeLog", but it is a ChangeLog > > 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. JIC we go further in that direction, the scripts I use to produce the release make some commits, and one of the things they do is extracting ChangeLog entries from commit text. It assumes the format I have been using, which is | path/to/ChangeLog: | | [ChangeLog text] The code as is works well in the context of the controlled commits the scripts are creating. They would probably need to be improved for general usage, and the convention could also be adapted. I would probably also add another "server"-side check to reject improperly formatted commit logs prior to switching over to automatic generation. -- Joel