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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Tim Josling <tejgcc at westnet dot com dot au>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, njn at csse dot unimelb dot edu dot au, andi at firstfloor dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:00:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:52:41PM +1100, Tim Josling wrote:
> > I wrote a little proof-of-concept script to take the mailing list
> > archives and the ChangeLog files and annotate the ChangeLog files with
> > the URLs of the probable email containing the patch.
>
> This is really awesome. Thank you! I hope we can get these hosted
> and maybe hyperlinked somewhere on a permanent basis.
Agreed. Even nicer would be if the ChangeLogs in the repository
were just updated with this.
-Andi