On 07/02/2020 15:32, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 01:56:08PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
On 07/02/2020 13:48, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
Should we require some simple markup in the commit message before the
changelogs? Maybe
CL gcc/
* blablalba etc.
CL gcc/testsuite/
* gcc.target/...
etc.
(Dunno if just "^CL " is too short?)
I was thinking "@CL <dir>", but ^CL would work just as well.
I meant ^ as in a regular expression, sorry for not being clear.
Ah! I think something more syntactically explicit would help avoid the
risk of mis-parsing.
Any script should, in addition to extracting the author and email also
grep for "Co-authored-by:" annotations and add those as additional
contributors, of course.
Is there no existing established practice for that? (Or is this it and
so infrquent that I never have seen it :-) )
It's a convention (much like signed-off-by, etc). But it's fairly
widely accepted. In the git conversion we added fields for it where we
detected co-authorship in the ChangeLog entries. Git has no specific
field for recording additional authors, so this approach addresses this
and some tools know how to add the appropriate accreditation based on it.
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/CommitMessageConventions
Also "git help interpret-trailers"
R.
Segher
