Re: [PATCH, updated] Add support for setting disassembler-options in GDB for POWER, ARM and S390

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 05:14:16PM -0600, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 2/14/17 2:01 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > - Maintain the intended git commit log as an integral part
> >   of the patch, and include it in patch re-posts, so that
> >   any revision of the patch can be reviewed as a
> >   self-contained entity.  There's probably some rationale for
> >   some changes to the tests that is written down in some
> >   earlier intro, but was lost meanwhile.
> 
> I'm not a git expert, as I'm paid to work on gcc and we still use
> subversion.  I am willing to learn though, so can you explain what
> you mean by the above?

When you commit the patch to your local git repo, write your email
into the git commit message.  Then (perhaps) trim that a little for
the push upstream.  Take a look at "git log" for binutils-gdb.  We are
quite verbose.


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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM