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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:33:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net.suse.lists.egcs>
Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:
> recent ChangeLog entry in gcc/ChangeLog is:
>From my understanding the gcc changelogs serve two purposes these days:
- Force the submitter to read (or rather speed read) the patch again
before sending it out.
- Serve as a "hash key" to search the gcc-patches archives for the
real changelog.
The second could be solved far better in many obvious ways, but it's
unclear how to replace the first. Linux kernel doesn't have a solution
for it.
-Andi