Moving away from ChangeLog's?

Luis Machado luis.machado@linaro.org
Wed Aug 4 19:46:52 GMT 2021


On 8/4/21 4:34 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 12:12 PM Luis Machado via Binutils
> <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In GDB land it was decided that master GDB (and the subdirectories under
>> its umbrella) won't require ChangeLog entries for commits anymore,
>> starting with GDB 12 (GDB 11 has branched). The commit message will
>> contain enough information and git log/git blame will be used as a means
>> to obtain more precise information on what has changed and what commit
>> made the change.
>>
>> Since binutils and GDB share some code, I'm wondering if it might be
>> acceptable (and a good idea) for binutils to drop ChangeLog's as well.
>>
>> That may simplify the process of pushing future commits that touch both
>> GDB and binutils.
> 
> ChangeLog is no longer needed for binutils master branch.

Great. That's a non-issue then.

Sorry I missed the main thread last month about binutils moving away 
from ChangeLog's.


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