Git ChangeLog policy for GCC Testsuite inquiry

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> writes:

Jonathan> I have a script that does the opposite, which I've been using for
Jonathan> years. I edit the ChangeLog files as before, and a Git
Jonathan> prepare-commit-msg hook extracts the top changelog entry from each
Jonathan> file in the commit and pre-populates my commit msg with those entries.

Jonathan> To use it just put the two prepare-commit-msg* files from
Jonathan> https://gitlab.com/miscripts/miscripts/-/tree/master/gcc into your
Jonathan> $GCC_SRC/.git/hooks directory.

I do this too, combined with scripts to handle merge ChangeLogs
specially during rebase; scripts to update the dates on ChangeLog files
before pushing; and a wrapper for "git send-email" that strips the
ChangeLogs from the email (part of gdb patch submission rules).

You can find it all here

https://github.com/tromey/git-gnu-changelog

Tom