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

Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15T21:09:19Z

> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:57:47 -0500
> Cc: fred.cooke@gmail.com,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
> brobecker@adacore.com,
> binutils@sourceware.org
>
> > If we are going to generate ChangeLog files, this discussion is still
> > relevant, since the text needs to be formatted according to ChangeLog
> > rules.
>
> not necessarily. there's two options:
> - just use `git log --stat` and pipe it into a ChangeLog. this isn't a
> "GNU ChangeLog", but it is a ChangeLog

This is still a GNU project, isn't it? We still adhere to GNU coding
standards, right? So I don't think we can avoid producing GNU-style
ChangeLog files.