Git ChangeLog policy for GCC Testsuite inquiry

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:56:08PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> On 07/02/2020 13:48, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >Should we require some simple markup in the commit message before the
> >changelogs?  Maybe
> >
> >CL gcc/
> >	* blablalba etc.
> >CL gcc/testsuite/
> >	* gcc.target/...
> 
> >etc.
> >
> >(Dunno if just "^CL " is too short?)
> 
> I was thinking "@CL <dir>", but ^CL would work just as well.

I meant ^ as in a regular expression, sorry for not being clear.

> Any script should, in addition to extracting the author and email also 
> grep for "Co-authored-by:" annotations and add those as additional 
> contributors, of course.

Is there no existing established practice for that?  (Or is this it and
so infrquent that I never have seen it :-) )


Segher