On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:47 AM Aldy Hernandez <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > > After 20 years of hacking on GCC I feel like I have literally wasted > days of my life typing out ChangeLog entries that could have easily been > generated programmatically. > > Can someone refresh my memory here, what are the remaining arguments for > requiring ChangeLog entries? > > I vaguely recall Jakub (or Alex Oliva??) mentioning that they were > desired for releases. If this is the case, may I volunteer to write the > necessary scripts to generate these automatically? > > It would be nice if we could have meaningful commit messages explaining > why we are doing things, and any list of changed files be generated on > the fly. > > Sorry, I'm getting old, and would hate to spend any meaningful remaining > time typing things that a computer can do for me.
They are definitely useful in my day-to-day work when tracking down changes given I can easily grep them. I think that any change here should be _after_ we've switched to git (finally). Richard. > > Aldy
