Re: Auto generate ChangeLog for binutils commits?
Simon Marchi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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On 2020-05-27 10:20 a.m., H.J. Lu wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:10 AM Simon Marchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2020-05-26 1:07 p.m., H.J. Lu via Gdb wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I had an impression that ChangeLog was auto generated for GDB commits. >>> If it is true, should we do the same for binutils commits? >>> >>> -- >>> H.J. >>> >> >> No we (GDB) don't do that. There was a discussion here >> >> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-February/165728.html >> >> But it didn't go anywhere. Note that when I actually tried the script, it >> didn't produce good results (perhaps because it wasn't designed with C++ >> in mind). > > GCC will auto generate ChangeLog entry from git commit message. Can > binutils+gdb do the same? Can you please explain what this means? I suspect that we are not talking about the same thing. You mean, still write the ChangeLog entry by hand, but only put it in the git commit. And then a script scrapes all the commit messages in order to produce a ChangeLog file? Simon