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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:33:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net.suse.lists.egcs> <200712022136.57819.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr.suse.lists.egcs> <4aca3dc20712021240k19f3eae5j66453276179c401a@mail.gmail.com.suse.lists.egcs> <200712022355.23871.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr.suse.lists.egcs> <4aca3dc20712021621n39a036d2u21f471f231dfffe@mail.gmail.com.suse.lists.egcs> <10712031329.AA20246@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu.suse.lists.egcs>
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
>
> Yes, but none of those are visible other than to the development community.
> People who obtain the source distributions of projects don't get to see
> those things. They DO see things like the ChangeLog format and coding
> and documentation conventions and THOSE are the things that need to be
> common among GNU projects.
It would be probably reasonable these days to require of someone who
wants to do serious development to just download a SVN checkout
for that [or they can use svnweb on http://gcc.gnu.org]
-Andi