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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>, Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, schwab at suse dot de, sam at rfc1149 dot net
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 07:00:45 +0100
Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <200712022136.57819.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> <47534081.50801@adacore.com>

> In the Ada revision histories, we have always given the what-and-the-why
> (and if necessary the why-not), and they have proved very helpful, I
> always found the RH's for gigi (done in the gcc style, much less helpful
> because they omitted the why).

Sorry, that's simply not true, the ChangeLog and the commit messages in the 
ada/ subdirectory are on par with the rest of the GCC tree, and that's fine.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

References:
- Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Samuel Tardieu
- Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Eric Botcazou
- Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
  - From: Robert Dewar

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