From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Cc: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [gdb] Move ChangeLog files to archive dir
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:20:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pl0hwpay.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2607192017470.64835@angie.orcam.me.uk> (Maciej W. Rozycki's message of "Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:23:57 +0100 (BST)")
>>>>> Maciej W Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2026, Tom de Vries wrote:
>> I've decided to commit this patch. My guess is that complete removal is more
>> likely to run into objections from other maintainers.
> FWIW I have done:
> $ find ... -not -name 'ChangeLog*' ...
> since forever, even when ChangeLog files were still actively updated (they
> still are for other toolchain components) and it works for me either way,
> never had to bother about them. Similarly for .git and other such stuff.
Is there anybody out there who wants to include these files in greps?
If not we ought to git rm them. Personally I only ever end up viewing a
ChangeLog by mistake, they aren't really useful IMNSHO.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-20 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-20 11:40 Tom de Vries
2026-06-23 15:59 ` Keith Seitz
2026-06-26 15:28 ` Tom Tromey
2026-06-26 15:37 ` Tom de Vries
2026-07-13 11:30 ` Tom de Vries
2026-07-19 19:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2026-07-20 17:20 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2026-07-28 11:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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