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Re: gdb/CONTRIBUTE
- From: Victor Kamensky <victor dot kamensky at linaro dot org>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>, "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:36:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: gdb/CONTRIBUTE
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On 24 October 2014 05:20, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor,
>
> On 10/21/2014 03:44 PM, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>>> >
>>> > We don't include the ChangeLog changes in the patch, because that will
>>> > cause conflicts when applying your patch locally in the review.
>>> > Instead, we include ChangeLog entries in the commit messages, see
>>> > https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Properly_formatted_commit_messages
>> Thanks! It is good pointer. I have not seen it before.
>> Maybe gdb/CONTRIBUTE could mention this wiki page.
>
> OOC, how did you find gdb/CONTRIBUTE? Was that through
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/contribute/ or some other means?
Yes, through above link. I got to it from
https://sourceware.org/gdb/
following 'contributing' (3rd) tab on top under title.
Thanks,
Victor
> IMO we should just move/merge the gross of the contents in the
> file to the web/wiki, and either delete the file, or leave just
> the preamble.
>
> If it stays, I think it should link to:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/contribute/
>
> as that's more stable than the wiki, and then that page should
> link to relevant wiki pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>