Re: Auto update ChangeLog for binutils+gdb commits?

Fangrui Song
2021-01-15T01:19:00Z

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:49 PM Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 6/1/20 4:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Cc: simark@simark.ca, hjl.tools@gmail.com, binutils@sourceware.org,
> >> gdb@sourceware.org
> >> From: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
> >> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 09:39:08 +0200
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >
> > How does it handle the frequent case where the change is attributed by
> > Diff to the previous function because the function's type or argument
> > list is being modified?
>
> It's handled by parsing of each diff line where we try to identify
> beginning of a function, strut or something else. In that case the
> diff header is ignored.
>
> >
> > And how does the script decide that "nothing like this is found",
> > i.e. how does it know that what is in the hunk header is not really a
> > function name?
>
> It's best effort approach and it's not easy task ;)
>
> Martin
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>

Seems that ChangeLog files in binutils and gdb are still being
modified manually.

See glibc tag changelog-ends-here. They stopped updating ChangeLog
files manually.