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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 07:20:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: Auto generate ChangeLog for binutils commits?
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
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On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:10 AM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-26 1:07 p.m., H.J. Lu via Gdb wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had an impression that ChangeLog was auto generated for GDB commits.
> > If it is true, should we do the same for binutils commits?
> >
> > --
> > H.J.
> >
>
> No we (GDB) don't do that.  There was a discussion here
>
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-February/165728.html
>
> But it didn't go anywhere.  Note that when I actually tried the script, it
> didn't produce good results (perhaps because it wasn't designed with C++
> in mind).

GCC will auto generate ChangeLog entry from git commit message.  Can
binutils+gdb do the same?


-- 
H.J.