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From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sim: ChangeLog: move arch-specific entries into the arch dir
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 12:02:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <618e3a08-8239-8b9d-1f12-4e808a8f514c@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210108095746.GV2945@embecosm.com>

On 2021-01-08 4:57 a.m., Andrew Burgess wrote:
> * Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> [2021-01-07 13:57:14 -0700]:
> 
>> Mike> merging them into one causes extra pain due to conflicts.  having sep
>> Mike> arch ones alleviates that a little as you don't normally have people
>> Mike> working on the same arch at the same time.
>>
>> Mike> ideally we'd throw away these archaic ChangeLog files entirely.  they
>> Mike> are a huge waste of time for everyone and would be much better served
>> Mike> writing proper git commit messages.  it isn't the 80s/90s anymore.
>>
>> I'm +1 on that, but other maintainers like them, so we've been keeping
>> them around.
> 
> For the record I see them as a waste of time too.

Well, I'm not a maintainer of the sim project, but the maintainers of
the sim project could decide to not do ChangeLogs anymore.

See the section that talks about VCS:

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html

Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-09 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-07  8:09 Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07  9:33 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-07 17:12   ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 20:57     ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-08  2:03       ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-09 20:15         ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-08  9:57       ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-09 17:02         ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-01-09 19:35           ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-09 20:12             ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-10  3:26               ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-11 11:10           ` Andrew Burgess
2021-01-11 12:22             ` Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches
2021-01-07 12:14 ` Jose E. Marchesi via Gdb-patches

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