[PATCH] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@gotplt.org
Thu Dec 20 07:59:00 GMT 2018
On 19/12/18 9:01 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:03:59 +0000, Szabolcs Nagy
> <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> wrote :
>
>> if a commit has multiple authors currently that's only
>> tracked in the changelog, so there needs to be a way to
>> somehow specify multiple authors in git commits to
>> correctly generate the changelog.
>
> In other projects, (multiple) authors are identified by (multiple)
> Signed-Off-By: headers. Is there a GLIBC policy about these? The git
> log shows some commits have them, others don't.
>
> In any case, that would help with future commits, not current and past
> ones.
This script is for future commits anyway so that should be fine. We did
have broad agreement on using Signed-Off-By, Reviewed-By and Tested-by
previously, so we will need to encode that in the wiki and make it
mandatory once we have agreement on this script.
Siddhesh
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