From patchwork Thu Jun 24 11:32:39 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Sebastian Huber X-Patchwork-Id: 56782 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from sourceware.org (server1.sourceware.org [209.132.180.131]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BA46B6EEB for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:32:51 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 23037 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2010 11:32:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 23020 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2010 11:32:47 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RDNS_DYNAMIC, TO_NO_BRKTS_DYNIP, T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from host-82-135-62-35.customer.m-online.net (HELO mail.embedded-brains.de) (82.135.62.35) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:32:43 +0000 Received: by mail.embedded-brains.de (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 3B81C65F2E3; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:32:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.96.31] (eb0011.eb.z [192.168.96.31]) by mail.embedded-brains.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE1965F2E1 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:32:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C234257.5060006@embedded-brains.de> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:32:39 +0200 From: Sebastian Huber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4-1.1.1 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [wwwdocs] Generated files and patches X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Delivered-To: mailing list gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Hi, someone told me that generated files should be not included in patches. It would be nice if this is mentioned at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html Who writes the ChangeLog for the generated files? Have a nice day! Index: htdocs/contribute.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/contribute.html,v retrieving revision 1.73 diff -u -r1.73 contribute.html --- htdocs/contribute.html 4 Aug 2009 05:37:10 -0000 1.73 +++ htdocs/contribute.html 24 Jun 2010 11:30:51 -0000 @@ -235,7 +235,10 @@ If your version of diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of GNU diff. Patches against current development (SVN trunk) are preferred to patches against releases, unless your patch is intended -as a candidate for the release branch. +as a candidate for the release branch. The patch should not include generated +files like configure.in, Makefile.in, etc. The +person who eventually commits the patch will take care of regenerating these +files with the appropriate tool.