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
