Re: Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: Tom Tromey <[email protected]> > Cc: Tom Tromey <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 13:23:57 -0600 > > Eli> Having the names of the functions in the log is one of the most > Eli> important reasons for following the ChangeLog format. If it were not > Eli> for that reason, we could let people write free-text log messages, > Eli> because file names are easily gleaned from the VCS log. > > If the mklog script works, then the function names are also easily > computed from the diff. If all the script does is look at the hunk headers of the diffs, then indeed such a script doesn't have any added value. I thought it did a more thorough (and thus more accurate) job than that.