Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-03-22T02:19:16Z

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:

> > I'd love to hear more about these many important use cases as this
> > might help me improve my workflow. I can't recall ever referring to
> > the ChangeLogs to help track down a bug, so I'm worried I might be
> > missing out on some excellent techniques here.
> >
> > I'm always keen to learn!
>
> I'm okay with discussing this, but the comment up-thread to the effect
> that I'd better let the sleeping dogs lie turned me off to some
> extent. I don't want to appear as someone who forces an unwanted
> discussion on the community.
>
> But if this is a welcome subject, I'd be happy to share my experience,
> FWIW.

For the record the glibc project has a way to automatically produce
ChangeLog from commits at release time. This may be something to look
into if useful.

Maciej