From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16528 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2008 19:33:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 16519 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2008 19:33:59 -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 19:33:42 +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 m71JXeTR011961 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:33:40 -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 m71JXdo0020314; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:33:39 -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 m71JXcpL010457; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:33:38 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 71212508249; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:33:37 -0600 (MDT) To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: stanshebs@earthlink.net, 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 19:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 01 Aug 2008 22\:24\:31 +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/msg00018.txt.bz2 Eli> Well, I use Emacs, which brings me to the right ChangeLog Eli> automagically. Once I'm in the right file, the rest doesn't matter, Eli> since I need to write the text for each entry anyway. Right. I use Emacs too. But I am talking about pulling patches out of the tree and putting them back in after updating. How are you doing this? >> Then I have to redo that when re-applying the patch for checkin. >> And, then there is more editing preparing the commit message. Eli> Looks like your tools are not set up in an optimal way. For example, Eli> the commit messages are usually just copies of the log entries, so Eli> it's just copy-paste. How hard can that be? Sigh. It is not much work, you know that. IMO, though, it is merely busy-work without purpose. But, message received -- I'm the only one who wants this. Consider it dropped. I will work it out my own. Tom