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Re: bug fixes prompted by recent Coverity scan
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:53:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: bug fixes prompted by recent Coverity scan
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On 08/31/2015 12:43 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> How can we import such patches in a way that the automated
>> ChangeLog merging kicks in?
>
> I haven't been following the details of the plans for glibc. For
> Emacs, coreutils, etc., I use "git am" to import a patch from email.
> There's no ChangeLog change to merge, since there's no ChangeLog
> under git control; the ChangeLog is computed automatically from the
> git commit log (which is part of the email). I hope glibc will
> become just as easy to deal with.
We endeavour to get to the point where "git am" just works.
We had some rather long discussions about how to make progress on
this at GNU Cauldron 2015 in Prague.
c.