When can we stop writing ChangeLogs?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 10/3/19 9:37 PM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
>> * Siddhesh Poyarekar:
>>
>>> On 30/09/19 2:36 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:  
>>>> I'm looking for something far simpler here—a script that submitters and
>>>> reviewers can run to see what's going to be committed, and some level of
>>>> project consensus that this is how patches should be posted.  
>>>
>>> What kind of scripting are you thinking of?  pwclient should be able to
>>> download a patch from patchwork and apply it, giving you an indication
>>> of what a patch is going to look like.  
>>
>> The patch isn't the problem.  It's the commit subject, author and commit
>> message that I'm after.
> 
> Supposing that patches created with git format-patch are posted, which can
> then be applied with git am --scissors, do you foresee any problems with
> Reviewed-by statements and friends?  I mean, are you trying to match
> [exactly] the patch on the mailing list with the patch that has been
> actually committed.

The patch *should* conform to git am --scissors for cutting out non-patch
parts.

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Cheers,
Carlos.