Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> From: Luis Machado <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:25 -0300
> 
> > I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism.  And OTOH, producing the
> > ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
> > time.  So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
> > something that some people may value.  Why refuse to pay that small
> > price and humor those few people?
> 
> Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and 
> saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the 
> ChangeLog entries we have now?

That's the idea, yes.  Of course, for such a generated ChangeLog to be
useful, the Git commit log messages should be informative enough.
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.