Re: PSA: contribution checklist: format of git log entries

["Doug Evans via gdb-patches" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>]

Awesome, total fail in email addresses.
Bleah, sorry.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was going to send this earlier but just never got around to it.
> I think it was last year, or maybe even longer ago, someone (Gary?)
> suggested adding paths to the ChangeLog files in the commit message.
> It's fine by me, and it's in the contribution checklist:
>
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Properly_Formatted_GNU_ChangeLog
>
> I think things may have changed a bit as the format that's there now
> is slightly different than I remember it. Anyways, it's in the
> contribution checklist which I think we're all supposed to follow.
>
> So heads up.
>
> Instead of this:
>
>     2017-02-03  Im Dave  <im@dave.com>
>
>             * foo.c (bar): Fix baz.
>
>     2017-02-03  Im Dave  <im@dave.com>
>
>             * gdb.base/foo.exp: Add new tests.
>
> This:
>
>     gdb/ChangeLog:
>     2017-02-03  Im Dave  <im@dave.com>
>
>             * foo.c (bar): Fix baz.
>
>     gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
>     2017-02-03  Im Dave  <im@dave.com>
>
>             * gdb.base/foo.exp: Add new tests.
>
> Though lots of people do this in the commit message, which is fine too UUIC.
>
>     gdb/ChangeLog:
>
>             * foo.c (bar): Fix baz.
>
>     gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
>
>             * gdb.base/foo.exp: Add new tests.