From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3703 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2014 13:09:24 -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 3693 invoked by uid 89); 15 Aug 2014 13:09:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:09:23 +0000 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7FD9ECu030080 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:09:15 -0400 Received: from blade.nx (ovpn-116-116.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.116]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s7FD9E1F015316; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:09:14 -0400 Received: by blade.nx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60FF82640D0; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:09:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:09:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Mike Frysinger , gdb@sourceware.org, Andreas Arnez Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages Message-ID: <20140815130913.GA1954@blade.nx> References: <20140814083231.GA6283@blade.nx> <6036430.RnprRWgZmF@vapier> <20140814131206.GA12746@blade.nx> <20140814132939.GH4924@adacore.com> <20140815084819.GB30130@blade.nx> <20140815121102.GB6019@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140815121102.GB6019@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker wrote: > > 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. Does anybody have any experience writing such checks? Or, does anybody know of any project that already uses such checks? I can look into doing it myself (it's a pre-receive hook, right?) Cheers, Gary -- http://gbenson.net/