From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15811 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2014 17:12:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 15792 invoked by uid 89); 15 Jan 2014 17:12:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.gentoo.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:12:43 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A00133F5C4; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:12:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.12.1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Joel Brobecker , binutils@sourceware.org References: <20140115121251.GM4639@adacore.com> <20140115162518.GL4762@adacore.com> <83eh4941yu.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <83eh4941yu.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6635881.Rs4C9Z3HRg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201401151212.43847.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-01/txt/msg00525.txt.bz2 --nextPart6635881.Rs4C9Z3HRg Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 735 On Wednesday 15 January 2014 11:57:45 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:25:18 +0400 > > From: Joel Brobecker > > Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org > >=20 > > But even with this example, it isn't just a repeat. >=20 > I didn't say it was just a repeat, I said most of it just repeats. >=20 > > The text before the ChangeLog says what the intent of the patch is, > > and provides extra information that usually doesn't go into the > > ChangeLog entry. For example, it says "This makes it usable in more > > places". >=20 > Why not have this as part of the log entry. Here's an example (from > Emacs): i'd lobby for just stopping the ChangeLog practice altogether :) -mike --nextPart6635881.Rs4C9Z3HRg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJS1sGLAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBVnwP/30i81IVmSGe7weHXnfjKehV 7u+dxRH6aPKGkChq8H5iyaXluiANLPXLFQ1wiGcAT34hqX3BvYdBtwA+lliZG2ly 8b1SSxx9P8Bs6I1txdNvvk5nfDq88LFXvKaOGRilhV/PwcPm76U7P8TOsd83JwHb 1g0dAfitnWIzYaYr/PjkQT2Sv0TCL3BCs+BZ0+8IPBfS/XhaOfyHDFWimCHdYYD2 5dt+IKNAwdKDv4a3ufpTxNimzeMqO6FRHVuGRCh9SH4uziRev3TN5RHs4IVJRz+T f7xmIFQMm1nMejb1ciiupB5fazi9BmGaVFeSoxoUYN3+XVhElSx0yLjhIIpaXODJ OYDMNWYnIw4lRtMcCuHFmai28SVCvHiC0MR8DlcxW6Gz972GEk+yE7N4eMmNaR9p lsFonkkUYlIZEIPxfSzqvbLu422VFJ464x4IJOdq87NERhpD8zNxns6SntHfWDYd vxHsFNzbTWuC7ObGaXvBt8aoxpilkIyFMkZacbTy8NwWdsrWY2kMWOYd8RtVprym tho37jIPx6lMVjoS91tZcErDE9zyDoKX+NlAUC5fahi1LbV9NPH03mrB1k00+FIr 9DJUjenBini+WkUPn4EDuabdrd1I3aCv9bEQSEXCbO/Fca6MTVkRz9gCgpYp5loY i886GEDqMiXJZEDW+7Br =hq/Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6635881.Rs4C9Z3HRg--