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Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, fred dot cooke at gmail dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, brobecker at adacore dot com, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:40:51 +1030
- Subject: Re: small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:09:08PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is still a GNU project, isn't it? We still adhere to GNU coding
> standards, right? So I don't think we can avoid producing GNU-style
> ChangeLog files.
People have been putting the changelog entry in the git log. If that
continues, it ought to be easy to generate a GNU ChangeLog by "git log
| awk". I don't see any need for a ChangeLog in the source
repository if we can generate one to be distributed along with the
sources.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM