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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
		Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>,
	Marek Polacek <mpolacek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/348] Fix -Wsahdow warnings
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22SVNNVCGRG9UgJNW7J19pMboMUPORbHWL6AmJ6ruU9Q7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111221120.06244.vapier@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > your ChangeLogs are also incorrect.  it should not be:
>> >     * bcache.c (expand_hash_table): Fix -Wshadow warnings.
>> >
>> > but rather:
>> >     * bcache.c (expand_hash_table): Rename bcache to cache.
>>
>> I'm 50/50 on this. I don't mind either way. What do others think?
>> Is that really that important that we must create boring extra work
>> for Andrey?
>
> it's my understanding that the GNU changelog style is "document what changed"
> and not "why".  i think that's largely stupid, but i'm not the one in control
> of said policy.

For little things like this, at least for those that are internal to a function,
I've seen a lot of leeway and I think that's ok.
fwiw.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-22 13:07 Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-22 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 13:34   ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-22 13:35     ` Marek Polacek
2011-11-22 14:04       ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-22 15:28         ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-22 16:05           ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-22 16:20             ` Mike Frysinger
2011-11-23 17:25               ` Doug Evans [this message]
2011-11-22 18:24             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-23 16:46             ` Mark Kettenis
     [not found]               ` <CAHQ1cqFADK_pXv4JAW6ouvm_NPyM6dM+-FmVF0FojKi1rs98Wg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-24  3:23                 ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-23  5:29           ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-23 17:06             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-24  3:18               ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-23 17:56             ` Doug Evans
2011-11-23 18:03               ` Doug Evans
2011-11-23 20:16                 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-24  4:33               ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-29 19:06                 ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-28 15:07         ` [PATCH 022/238] [misc.] bcache.c: -Wshadow fix Andrey Smirnov
2011-11-28 15:07           ` [PATCH 025/238] " Andrey Smirnov
2011-12-20 15:42             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-28 15:07           ` [PATCH 026/238] " Andrey Smirnov
2011-12-20 15:43             ` Tom Tromey
2011-11-28 15:07           ` [PATCH 024/238] " Andrey Smirnov
2011-12-20 15:46             ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-20 15:42           ` [PATCH 022/238] " Tom Tromey
2011-12-20 16:13             ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-12-20 19:17               ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-20 19:31                 ` Andrey Smirnov
2011-12-20 21:06                   ` Tom Tromey

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