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Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, gdb@sourceware.org, 	Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
> Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> I would like to push again for the format without the date and
>> author email but the simpler gdb/ChangeLog: instead.  The commit
>> already stores that information (author name and email, committer
>> date), whereas requiring the user to provide it in the rev log
>> means that the date needs to be maintained throughout the
>> lifetime of the patch until that patch gets pushed. Same thing
>> when cherry-picking a patch from master to a release branch.
>
> I'm happy with this.  Do you want the "ChangeLog" in the path?

Me too.

As for ChangeLog in the path,
Do you mean prepending entries with "gdb/ChangeLog" or
"testsuite/ChangeLog" instead of just "gdb/" or "testsuite/" ?
If so, I would say skip "ChangeLog", keep just, e.g., "testsuite/".
That's the existing convention.