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Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: fred dot cooke at gmail dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, brobecker at adacore dot com, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:38:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:02:07 -0500
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
> binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
>
> there's no reason the dist steps can't autogenerate a full ChangeLog
> from git history and throw it into the tarball. it's what other GNU
> projects are doing now (like coreutils).
If we are going to generate ChangeLog files, this discussion is still
relevant, since the text needs to be formatted according to ChangeLog
rules.