From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,
Tamar Christina <Tamar.Christina@arm.com>,
"overseers@gcc.gnu.org" <overseers@gcc.gnu.org>,
Jonathan Wakely via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>,
Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: Not usable email content encoding
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:32:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200423203200.GS26902@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200423165743.GA27372@redhat.com>
Hi!
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:57:43PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> > *Nothing* should touch changelog files :-) They should be generated from the
> > VCS. IMHO of course.
>
> IMHO: the VCS should be the changelog.
The VCS shows what changed. The changelog shows what was meant to be
changed. The difference is very helpful for reviewers, and for
post-mortem purposes, etc.
This can be more than compensated for if submitters would write better
patch descriptions, of course. But will that happen?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-23 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-16 13:45 Martin Liška
2020-03-16 13:47 ` Richard Earnshaw
2020-03-16 13:52 ` Martin Liška
2020-03-16 13:51 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-16 13:52 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-16 13:54 ` Alexander Monakov
2020-03-16 14:11 ` Martin Liška
2020-03-16 14:18 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-17 19:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-17 19:51 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-17 21:45 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-18 10:38 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-18 11:01 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 11:39 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-18 14:19 ` Michael Matz
2020-03-18 14:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 15:15 ` Bernd Schmidt
2020-03-18 16:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-18 16:42 ` Michael Matz
2020-03-18 17:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-18 21:52 ` Jim Wilson
2020-03-18 22:29 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-18 22:34 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-18 22:44 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-19 3:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-19 3:32 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-03-18 22:45 ` Joseph Myers
2020-03-18 23:02 ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-03-19 13:05 ` Tom Tromey
2020-03-19 13:26 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-19 13:41 ` Richard Biener
2020-03-19 13:58 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-19 18:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 0:54 ` Tamar Christina
2020-04-23 5:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-23 7:34 ` Richard Biener
2020-04-23 9:55 ` Tamar Christina
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdShSXwc4K7ar9HWgHu12tDQe-s2LifdvmVp8VytwYV-ew@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-23 8:39 ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-04-23 15:32 ` Jeff Law
2020-04-23 11:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdTHsZWO9vuycKm22dDbSGSfzcrKbzEpb6vNdb-zXCiKjQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-23 12:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 15:33 ` Jeff Law
2020-04-23 16:57 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-23 20:32 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-04-23 20:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-23 21:14 ` Tom Tromey
2020-04-24 15:48 ` Thomas Koenig
2020-04-24 17:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-05-01 15:51 ` Jeff Law
2020-05-02 12:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-19 18:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-18 22:33 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-03-19 0:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-19 0:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-06 20:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 21:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-06 21:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
[not found] ` <CAH6eHdTqJEM90d9+nNWrAa_zZrQQha79oMbnbVsRt_2Zd90PdA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-07 9:53 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-08 12:38 ` Mark Wielaard
2020-04-08 13:50 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-08 21:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-13 19:47 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-13 22:53 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-14 21:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-14 21:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-15 2:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 15:13 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-07 15:22 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2020-04-07 15:56 ` Michael Matz
2020-04-07 16:09 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 17:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-09 18:19 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-07 16:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2020-04-07 16:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 23:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-21 22:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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