Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?

H.J. Lu
2020-05-27T15:11:23Z

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:29 AM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-27 10:20 a.m., H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 7:10 AM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020-05-26 1:07 p.m., H.J. Lu via Gdb wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I had an impression that ChangeLog was auto generated for GDB commits.
> >>> If it is true, should we do the same for binutils commits?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> H.J.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No we (GDB) don't do that. There was a discussion here
> >>
> >> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-February/165728.html
> >>
> >> But it didn't go anywhere. Note that when I actually tried the script, it
> >> didn't produce good results (perhaps because it wasn't designed with C++
> >> in mind).
> >
> > GCC will auto generate ChangeLog entry from git commit message. Can
> > binutils+gdb do the same?
>
> Can you please explain what this means? I suspect that we are not talking about
> the same thing. You mean, still write the ChangeLog entry by hand, but only put
> it in the git commit. And then a script scrapes all the commit messages in order
> to produce a ChangeLog file?
>

Yes. I updated the email subject. Personally, I think it is a good
exercise to document
what changes are in ChangeLog format in commit message. But adding them to
ChangeLog files is a problem. If git commit hooks can do it
automatically, it will
be very nice. GCC will do it now. Can we do the same?

--
H.J.