Re: Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?

Martin Liška
2020-06-01T07:39:10Z

On 5/30/20 9:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
>> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, mliska@suse.cz, simark@simark.ca,
>> hjl.tools@gmail.com, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org
>> Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 13:23:57 -0600
>>
>> Eli> Having the names of the functions in the log is one of the most
>> Eli> important reasons for following the ChangeLog format. If it were not
>> Eli> for that reason, we could let people write free-text log messages,
>> Eli> because file names are easily gleaned from the VCS log.
>>
>> If the mklog script works, then the function names are also easily
>> computed from the diff.
>
> If all the script does is look at the hunk headers of the diffs, then
> indeed such a script doesn't have any added value. I thought it did a
> more thorough (and thus more accurate) job than that.
>

It does, it tries to find a function name, macro, struct in a diff hunk
and this name is taken as changed. If nothing like this is found, then
diff header name is used.

Martin