From: Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABZhLO8Kg_RgXGADyKPB15hFE5stZsxyVhN87mhyyX=s5RAkKA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201401151502.09189.vapier@gentoo.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-15 12:12 Joel Brobecker
2014-01-15 15:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 15:51 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-15 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 16:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-15 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 17:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 19:48 ` Fred Cooke
2014-01-15 20:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-15 20:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-16 2:11 ` Alan Modra
2014-01-16 2:17 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-01-16 1:41 ` Fred Cooke [this message]
2014-01-16 2:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-15 16:50 ` Pedro Alves
2014-01-15 17:03 ` Tom Tromey
2014-01-15 18:07 ` Gary Benson
2014-01-16 11:41 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2014-01-15 19:31 ` Cary Coutant
2014-01-15 19:45 ` Tom Tromey
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