More consistency for Git log messages?

[Martin Liška]

On 12/30/20 3:49 PM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:54:53AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> Having spent a bit more time with GCC sources (as opposed to wwwdocs)
>> recently and looking for prior art to guide me, I noticed there's a
>> lot of options to specific the ChangeLog file(s) to use.
>>
>> And correspondingly a lot of inconsistency.
>>
>> Right now we seem to allow for
>>
>>   1. gcc/cp/ChangeLog
>>   2. gcc/cp/ChangeLog:
>>   3. gcc/cp
>>   4. gcc/cp:
>>   5. gcc/cp/
>>
>> and probably more.
>>
>> Can we streamline this a bit and converge on one of the forms 3-5?
> 
> Why?
> Different people have different styles (usually from years before the git
> conversion) and that is reflected in what the checking as well as ChangeLog
> generation scripts allow or reject. One style is also not to specify the
> ChangeLog files at all (something I prefer to use when it is possible).
> All that matters is whether the scripts can handle it or not and that is
> checked at git push time.

Hello.

As the author of the GCC changelog parser, I agree with Jakub that we should
support all the formats. Now having the parser, I don't see a benefit bringing
more restrictions for developers.

Martin

> 
> 	Jakub
>