From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11249 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2008 19:25:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 11241 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2008 19:25:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout1.012.net.il (HELO mtaout1.012.net.il) (84.95.2.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:25:25 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.228.238]) by i-mtaout1.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K4X00JY5SL38RS0@i-mtaout1.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:24:40 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:25:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Subdir ChangeLogs In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Tom Tromey Cc: stanshebs@earthlink.net, stan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <487975AF.4030306@codesourcery.com> <48933ABA.2030601@codesourcery.com> <4893474C.3000103@earthlink.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00017.txt.bz2 > Cc: Stan Shebs , stan@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > From: Tom Tromey > Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:54:42 -0600 > > 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. Well, I use Emacs, which brings me to the right ChangeLog automagically. Once I'm in the right file, the rest doesn't matter, since I need to write the text for each entry anyway. > Then I have to redo that when re-applying the patch for checkin. > And, then there is more editing preparing the commit message. Looks like your tools are not set up in an optimal way. For example, the commit messages are usually just copies of the log entries, so it's just copy-paste. How hard can that be? But as I said: I'm not going to fight against this.