Using the vcs_to_changelog.py script
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Thu Feb 13 03:37:00 GMT 2020
> From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:32:51 -0500
>
> As you may or may not know, the glibc project has started using a script called
> vcs_to_changelog.py to automatically generate their ChangeLogs. They don't do
> hand-written ChangeLog entries with their contributions. Instead they generate
> a ChangeLog file using that script when creating a release, passing it a range
> of git commits for which to create ChangeLog entries.
>
> I would very much like if we started using this in GDB, and it was suggested
> that we could try to sync with binutils, as you might want to do the same.
>
> Here's how it could work in practice:
>
> 1. We update our gnulib import to import the vcs_to_changelog.py script (it is
> distributed as a gnulib module).
> 2. We update src-release.sh to call the script and generate a single top-level
> ChangeLog that is included in the release tarball.
Several things we'd need to consider if we go this way:
. AFAIK, the script you mention currently supports only C sources;
we'd need to see how well it supports C++
. Some files in our tree are neither C++ nor C: there are Python
files, Guile files, shell scripts, and Texinfo files, to mention
just a few: what to do about them?
. Last, but not least: we'd need detailed instructions for how to
produce the commit log messages under this regime, because the old
conventions will not be valid anymore.
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