From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk1-x72e.google.com (mail-qk1-x72e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::72e]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E0C5384B0C0 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:52:08 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 1E0C5384B0C0 Received: by mail-qk1-x72e.google.com with SMTP id g185so39083176qkf.6 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:52:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g08bhGIsfe9xx2ujJ/UwyLf7/QGJr5HiuP0N4dcxYS4=; b=EPe9quAiHm32SiATGMpuQYOqnAsIZFyl7rZUupXPgu+9n6zAcOezZf9UviBkeKHpUR 7rMw+XgyOvhfJk04wevMQW/iPwBStZTfwCo6nitkiqhAZQhNtAd7Ga3q5E9JLRKYkyO6 S43AkxMWKhrvscoh5LFIad+iDkg0ilpfLsWmEBaIY/wGeTYhqFicoIGB6HiHLFuU8FNL sOhu1JhC5NJuVMrq0PtAYDizftqudXoz0mN/dxpLK9Ece9uZ4A9BLpVyDWT/7pwh6auH BreL/kXAchDX3+r+6VkUuwuvxvP9H355HMWt5lRcRTjRfEfFxT1r3X+N3OZpMDzZkFE0 GFqA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532ojz7PGhggkp+s48cp+h5ZcvAQO9qeZPFiHDCy159Ipf00pe7R ldp5L95bYZ0uxgVTj6UQT7x2Owl3ZtvscA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxKZPx22YUpOPj84YIGP5UhMTQS5mkGHb45e+tf+iSVwmLZF/8BTvVycMAx+5ZsxzwubmBXpw== X-Received: by 2002:a37:a353:: with SMTP id m80mr5260090qke.14.1615992727561; Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2804:7f0:4841:2841:c502:89bb:c3bf:f9a1? ([2804:7f0:4841:2841:c502:89bb:c3bf:f9a1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o197sm11279166qka.26.2021.03.17.07.52.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: vapier@gentoo.org, gdb@sourceware.org References: <83ft0zjys1.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfarhwjq.fsf@gnu.org> <83eegjhuuq.fsf@gnu.org> <8335wyj461.fsf@gnu.org> <83tup9disi.fsf@gnu.org> <2012fb21-38f2-3d1c-62c8-52d94d19e243@linaro.org> <83pmzxdegd.fsf@gnu.org> From: Luis Machado Message-ID: Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:52:03 -0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83pmzxdegd.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham 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: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:52:09 -0000 On 3/17/21 11:47 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org >> From: Luis Machado >> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:25 -0300 >> >>> I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the >>> ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development >>> time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for >>> something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small >>> price and humor those few people? >> >> Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and >> saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the >> ChangeLog entries we have now? > > That's the idea, yes. Of course, for such a generated ChangeLog to be > useful, the Git commit log messages should be informative enough. > I see. Given the ChangeLog will list all the files that were changed, I suppose the commit messages would only need to describe what the changes are about. But the description may not list function names, files, new data structures etc. Would that work? Or did you have something more specific in mind?