Re: Cherry Picking git Patches and ChangeLog

Joel Sherrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On March 15, 2015 5:44:21 PM CDT, Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
>Joel Sherrill <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I know that this is really a git/ChangeLog/patch question but
>> since it comes up in context of gdb, I am asking here. How
>> does one deal with patches that would apply cleanly except
>> for ChangeLog?
>
>git-merge-changelog can help here.

That will help if we want to manually touch the patches and update them for the tarball. 

Ideally we would just reference the upstream patch directly in the build system and let patch do it. We want this to be done as part of users building tools from source.

>Andreas.

--joel
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