From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18501 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2014 12:11:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 18484 invoked by uid 89); 15 Aug 2014 12:11:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:11:06 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCC51161F3; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:11:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id lVKZzxBTFiEl; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:11:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D98D1161EC; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:11:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A6E540E10; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:11:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Gary Benson Cc: Mike Frysinger , gdb@sourceware.org, Andreas Arnez Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages Message-ID: <20140815121102.GB6019@adacore.com> References: <20140814083231.GA6283@blade.nx> <6036430.RnprRWgZmF@vapier> <20140814131206.GA12746@blade.nx> <20140814132939.GH4924@adacore.com> <20140815084819.GB30130@blade.nx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140815084819.GB30130@blade.nx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00050.txt.bz2 > Andreas Arnez pointed out that Joel previously mentioned generating > the actual ChangeLog files from the commit messages, here: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-01/msg00578.html > > This sounds like an interesting idea, but we really would have to > standardize on a particular format, and I think #1 (path and author- > date headers) is the only option that could realistically work. > If we standardize on this now (and put some checks on the server to > weed out bad messages) then come December we'll have four months of > commit messages we can use to check whether we can correctly replicate > the ChangeLog files. And, if we can, we can consider omitting the > files from the repo and generating them as needed for tarballs. > > How does this sound? That sounds good to me. I do agree that a server-side "update" check is needed to verify the CL entry is present in the revision log and in the correct format. -- Joel