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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- Cc: 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, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:14:50 -0300
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain
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On Feb 23, 2008, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> 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.
+1
Thanks, Tim! Great stuff!
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