From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gateway34.websitewelcome.com (gateway34.websitewelcome.com [192.185.147.201]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F049C385BF81 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 19:23:59 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org F049C385BF81 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=tromey.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=tom@tromey.com Received: from cm11.websitewelcome.com (cm11.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.5]) by gateway34.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1F056C3 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 14:23:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from box5379.bluehost.com ([162.241.216.53]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id f75Lj0SPrSl8qf75LjFRk0; Sat, 30 May 2020 14:23:59 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tromey.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=RtcY2N0ic1m6TPXolH7HQQyASNxjb3/PjXLCTBMgB+Q=; b=l7Kv6SToJm5/HQ49VcTA1YZPO6 mId01D8drwBUU4OEaNME5lkpz/NOHEqed+dFM4yLt7loXMcUlggmiw5eLrEjqrCJg/bYr1IzcmrLS ML7HAidcmvOk9vfVZgJkyfxHQ; Received: from 174-16-104-48.hlrn.qwest.net ([174.16.104.48]:32804 helo=bapiya) by box5379.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jf75L-000iwQ-1a; Sat, 30 May 2020 13:23:59 -0600 From: Tom Tromey To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Tom Tromey , 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? References: <891ef86a-a47f-18f2-c6bd-e525719e3768@simark.ca> <9492d857-c259-1429-f1c7-31a6dbf6510f@simark.ca> <1fb47dab-7a52-524b-17a3-672122277a48@suse.cz> <87tuzzaqey.fsf@tromey.com> <83tuzyn8sd.fsf@gnu.org> X-Attribution: Tom Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 13:23:57 -0600 In-Reply-To: <83tuzyn8sd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 May 2020 16:57:22 +0300") Message-ID: <87367hrzua.fsf@tromey.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box5379.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - sourceware.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tromey.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 174.16.104.48 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1jf75L-000iwQ-1a X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 174-16-104-48.hlrn.qwest.net (bapiya) [174.16.104.48]:32804 X-Source-Auth: tom+tromey.com X-Email-Count: 6 X-Source-Cap: ZWx5bnJvYmk7ZWx5bnJvYmk7Ym94NTM3OS5ibHVlaG9zdC5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_NEUTRAL, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 19:24:01 -0000 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