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[37.24.206.209]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-70691ef0c7bsm1320064b3a.4.2024.06.24.23.15.13 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:15:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: On automated commits To: Sam James Cc: rostiprodev@gmail.com, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org References: <87sex2orqp.fsf@gentoo.org> Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: <87sex2orqp.fsf@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1009.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Jan Beulich via Gdb Reply-To: Jan Beulich Errors-To: gdb-bounces+public-inbox=simark.ca@sourceware.org Sender: "Gdb" On 25.06.2024 01:17, Sam James wrote: > This was reported at > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31881 and Nick agreed > it's worth discussing on the ML. > > Currently, binutils-gdb.git gets nightly commits to each active release > branch and master. > > This is a bit noisy - especially so for the release branches where > it makes it hard to see if there's a new commit to backport downstream, > obfuscates git log, and also as pointed out in the PR, consumes disk > space forever. > > On the PR, mjw suggests using gnulib's git-version-gen - which is a > solution I like the idea of (I have some draft to implement it for > Valgrind too) instead of automated commits to bump the version. I, too, was wondering whether these automatic updates couldn't be done away with. Just one remark on generating from configure: Please don't leave out the possibility of people like me not building directly from the git tree, but from "snapshots" thereof, i.e. a case where the most recent commit wouldn't be possible to establish from the tree at hand. Maybe it's enough to cater for this by not doing anything when the target file already exists (as would also be the case in builds from e.g. the tarball); making the file in the course of taking the "snapshot" is of course easily possible. As to "most recent commit", just to mention it: Commits can linger in people's trees for a long time, so when eventually pushed at least the authoring date can be pretty misleading. Jan