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Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: Fred Cooke <fred dot cooke at gmail dot com>
Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:02:07 -0500
Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
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On Wednesday 15 January 2014 14:48:51 Fred Cooke wrote:
> I'd be with you, Mike, but these packages are regularly distributed
> without source control, as tarballs, and as such it's useful.

i don't think it is, but let's assume you're right.  there's no reason the 
dist steps can't autogenerate a full ChangeLog from git history and throw it 
into the tarball.  it's what other GNU projects are doing now (like 
coreutils).
-mike

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