Re: Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?
Martin Liška <[email protected]>
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On 5/30/20 9:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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. > It does, it tries to find a function name, macro, struct in a diff hunk and this name is taken as changed. If nothing like this is found, then diff header name is used. Martin