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Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, gdb at sourceware dot org, Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:11:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
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> Andreas Arnez pointed out that Joel previously mentioned generating
> the actual ChangeLog files from the commit messages, here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-01/msg00578.html
>
> This sounds like an interesting idea, but we really would have to
> standardize on a particular format, and I think #1 (path and author-
> date headers) is the only option that could realistically work.
> If we standardize on this now (and put some checks on the server to
> weed out bad messages) then come December we'll have four months of
> commit messages we can use to check whether we can correctly replicate
> the ChangeLog files. And, if we can, we can consider omitting the
> files from the repo and generating them as needed for tarballs.
>
> How does this sound?
That sounds good to me. I do agree that a server-side "update"
check is needed to verify the CL entry is present in the revision
log and in the correct format.
--
Joel