[IMPORTANT] ChangeLog related changes

[Martin Liška]

On 6/10/20 3:34 PM, Tamar Christina wrote:
> Hi All,
> 

Hello.

> We've been wondering since we no longer list authors in the changelog (at least mklog doesn't generate it),

You are right, it's preferred solution and it's documented here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#ChangeLogs

'''
a commit author and committer date stamp can be automatically deduced from a git commit - we recommend to use it
'''

but we miss to document that additional authors are automatically taken from:
Co-Authored-By:

I'll document that.

Martin

> How do we handle multi author patches nowadays?
> 
> Tried searching for it on the website but couldn’t find anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tamar
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gcc-patches <gcc-patches-bounces@gcc.gnu.org> On Behalf Of Martin
>> Liška
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 8:38 AM
>> To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>; gcc@gcc.gnu.org; gcc-patches <gcc-
>> patches@gcc.gnu.org>
>> Subject: Re: [IMPORTANT] ChangeLog related changes
>>
>> On 6/9/20 10:29 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>> OK, here's a proper patch for the changes you liked, dropping the
>>> changes to the Error exception type.
>>>
>>> pytest contrib/gcc-changelog/test_email.py passes.
>>>
>>> OK for master?
>>
>> I like it and I've just pushed the patch to master.
>>
>> Martin