Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Mike Frysinger via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <YEzno3tPpqb7Fia3@vapier>
On 13 Mar 2021 18:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:12:40 -0500
> > From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> > 
> > On 13 Mar 2021 09:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:53:54 -0500
> > > > From: Mike Frysinger via Gdb <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > we're planning on dropping ChangeLog files in sim/ and replacing
> > > > them with a pointer to the online vcs log.
> > > 
> > > Will the release tarballs include the generated ChangeLog file?  If
> > > not, why not?
> > 
> > we can, but we're leaning towards not because they don't seem to be
> > providing any actual value for people.
> 
> So people who don't have Git will be left without the logs?  I'm not
> sure I'm okay with that.

what value are people actually pulling from these ?  we aren't talking
about user-focused NEWS, we're talking about developer-focused ChangeLog.

> Producing a ChangeLog from Git log when the release is tarred is not
> hard, why skip it?

the hard & bikeshed part is what form does the log take.  do you just want
the default `git log` output ?
-mike
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