From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4256 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2008 18:55:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 4248 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2008 18:55:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:54:46 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m71Isioh029890 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:54:44 -0400 Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m71IshSA031275; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:54:43 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (vpn-10-95.bos.redhat.com [10.16.10.95]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m71Ishas006434; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:54:43 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8E5CA8880A6; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:54:42 -0600 (MDT) To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Stan Shebs , stan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Subdir ChangeLogs References: <487975AF.4030306@codesourcery.com> <48933ABA.2030601@codesourcery.com> <4893474C.3000103@earthlink.net> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: Tom Tromey X-Attribution: Tom Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:55:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 01 Aug 2008 21\:43\:44 +0300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 Eli> You asked for opinions, so here's mine: I don't really understand why Eli> we'd want to do this. The only reason I heard so far was that it will Eli> help when source and doc files are committed together. It means less busy-work. Right now when I prepare a patch I usually edit at least two ChangeLogs, sometimes three or four. Then I have to redo that when re-applying the patch for checkin. And, then there is more editing preparing the commit message. Eli> But people do this all the time, and the CVS logs clearly show Eli> the entire changeset, so I don't see the advantage. Less manual editing. Tom