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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


  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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