On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches wrote: > The libstdc++ manual is written in Docbook XML, but we commit both the > XML and generated HTML pages to Git. Sometimes a small XML file can > result in dozens of mechanical changes to the generated HTML files, > which we record in the ChangeLog as: > > * doc/html/*: Regenerated. > > With the new checks we need to name every generated file individually. > > If we add that directory to the ignored_prefixes list, we won't need > to name them. But then the doc/html/* entry will give an error, and > changes to the HTML files can be committed without any ChangeLog > entry. Should we just stop mentioning the HTML in the ChangeLog? > > We could do something like the attached patch, but it seems overkill > for this one special case.
The change makes sense, but indeed it feels like a very specialized case in a general script. Thinking out of the box (and admittedly with a dose of igorance, which means I am likely missing something): Is not keeping the libstdc++/doc HTML in Git a viable option? Only creating that HTML as part of releases and maybe snapshots? Gerald
