Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git

Fred Cooke
2014-01-16T01:41:20Z

Fair call, though the commit message format requirements might become
a bit onerous if done this way, OR, generation might generate quite a
few errors/misprints. I guess the rate of commits is pretty low, and
commit size pretty big, on average, for binutils, though.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2014 14:48:51 Fred Cooke wrote:
>> I'd be with you, Mike, but these packages are regularly distributed
>> without source control, as tarballs, and as such it's useful.
>
> i don't think it is, but let's assume you're right. there's no reason the
> dist steps can't autogenerate a full ChangeLog from git history and throw it
> into the tarball. it's what other GNU projects are doing now (like
> coreutils).
> -mike