[IMPORTANT] ChangeLog related changes

[Tamar Christina]

Thanks both!

Cheers,
Tamar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 2:41 PM
> To: Tamar Christina <Tamar.Christina@arm.com>; 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 6/10/20 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