Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2021-03-17T14:47:54Z

> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:25 -0300
>
> > I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the
> > ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
> > time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
> > something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small
> > price and humor those few people?
>
> Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and
> saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the
> ChangeLog entries we have now?

That's the idea, yes. Of course, for such a generated ChangeLog to be
useful, the Git commit log messages should be informative enough.