[U-Boot-Users] Re: [PATCH] Make target for all ARM supplied and supported development boards - patch 007

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Catalin,

in message <tnxbr21v0no.fsf at arm.com> you wrote:
>
> A suggestion - since you are using GIT, you could automatically
> generate the changelog from the patch comments and no longer keep this

I would still need to copy & paste the information from the  message,
and collect submitter name and date from the mail headers. I think it
is impoortant to be able to match a change to the original posting of
the submitter on the mailing list.

In this respect, the CHANGELOG entry is a condensed form of the patch
comments with additional information about  the  sugbmitter  which  I
need  in  any  case  -  no  matter  if I explicitely register it in a
CHANGELOG file or not.

> file under revision control. People using GIT would just run gitk or
> git log to see what has changed. For people using snapshot or
> releases, you would would put the changelog in the tarball.

Please note that I also continue to keep the CVS server at SF in sync
with all  development  going  on  on  the  main  branch  of  the  git
repository.  This  is another place where the CHANGELOG file comes in
handy.

> It's even easier if you only accept patches in text/plain format and
> use GIT (or other tools on top) to automatically import the patches
> from the saved e-mail (the author information being automatically
> preserved).

It would be easier for me, indeed - much easier, as I would  have  to
reject 98% of all submitted patches.

Also,  I  am  strictly  against  automatically  importing   unchecked
patches. Too many patches contain horrible nonsense and would basicly
corrupt  the repository. And if I have to process / filter the paches
anyway, then it does not make any difference if I run this command or
that one.

But thanks for the well-meant suggestion.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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