small request regarding commits in binutils-gdb.git

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Jan 15 20:38:00 GMT 2014


> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:02:07 -0500
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
>  binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
> 
> 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).

If we are going to generate ChangeLog files, this discussion is still
relevant, since the text needs to be formatted according to ChangeLog
rules.



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