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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	 mliska@suse.cz,  simark@simark.ca, hjl.tools@gmail.com,
	 binutils@sourceware.org,  gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 13:23:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87367hrzua.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tuzyn8sd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 May 2020 16:57:22 +0300")

Eli> Having the names of the functions in the log is one of the most
Eli> important reasons for following the ChangeLog format.  If it were not
Eli> for that reason, we could let people write free-text log messages,
Eli> because file names are easily gleaned from the VCS log.

If the mklog script works, then the function names are also easily
computed from the diff.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-30 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-26 17:07 Auto generate ChangeLog for binutils commits? H.J. Lu
2020-05-27 14:10 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-27 14:20   ` H.J. Lu
2020-05-27 14:29     ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-27 15:10       ` Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits? H.J. Lu
2020-05-29  7:45         ` Martin Liška
2020-05-29  8:51           ` Martin Liška
2020-05-29 12:15           ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-29 12:25             ` Martin Liška
2020-05-29 12:44               ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-29 13:56                 ` Martin Liška
2020-05-30 10:23                   ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-05-30 11:22                     ` Martin Liška
2020-05-30 19:41                   ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-31  4:40                     ` Fangrui Song
2020-05-31  7:41                     ` Jan Vrany
2020-06-01  7:51                     ` Martin Liška
2020-05-29 12:28             ` Martin Liška
2020-05-29 13:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-30 19:23               ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-05-30 19:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-01  7:39                   ` Martin Liška
2020-06-01 14:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-06-02  6:49                       ` Martin Liška
2021-01-15  1:18                         ` Fangrui Song

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