Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
Doug Evans <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Gary Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > Joel Brobecker wrote: >> I would like to push again for the format without the date and >> author email but the simpler gdb/ChangeLog: instead. The commit >> already stores that information (author name and email, committer >> date), whereas requiring the user to provide it in the rev log >> means that the date needs to be maintained throughout the >> lifetime of the patch until that patch gets pushed. Same thing >> when cherry-picking a patch from master to a release branch. > > I'm happy with this. Do you want the "ChangeLog" in the path? Me too. As for ChangeLog in the path, Do you mean prepending entries with "gdb/ChangeLog" or "testsuite/ChangeLog" instead of just "gdb/" or "testsuite/" ? If so, I would say skip "ChangeLog", keep just, e.g., "testsuite/". That's the existing convention.