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Re: Need help in properly formatting a patch for glibc
- From: "Ryan Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- To: "Denys Vlasenko" <dvlasenk at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:42:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: Need help in properly formatting a patch for glibc
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> wrote:
> Please advice what I did wrong, and what is the correct Changelog
> format.
Denys,
You need a <tab> before the *.
The path in the ChangeLog should be in reference to the closes
ChangeLog to the file changed. In this case the GLIBC root directory
ChangeLog, hence, malloc/malloc.c.
You need to include the function changed following the file, i.e.
(public_rEALLOc):
You need to capitalize the first word of each change line.
You need to end each line with a period.
If the comments take more than one line then indent every continuation
with a preceding tab as well but don't include the *.
So I think it should look something like this:
2008-18-08 Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
<tab>* malloc/malloc.c (public_rEALLOc): Fix a case of realloc not
copying entire block.
Regards,
Ryan "I always get beat up over ChangeLogs" Arnold