Ouch; it looks like my last attempt to reply to this missed gdb-patches@
due to a gmane accident?
Samuel Bronson <naes...@gmail.com> writes:
> Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> writes:
>>>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Bronson <naes...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Samuel> [Am I really supposed to CC this to gcc@ like binutils/MAINTAINERS
>> Samuel> says I should?]
>>
>> I think just for files that are intended to be put in both trees and
>> shared.
>
> Well, they're certainly welcome to add such a file to their repository.
>
>> Samuel> Individual users will still have to:
>> Samuel> 1. Install git-merge-changelog
>> Samuel> 2. Set up the merge driver in their git config
>>
>> What happens if they do not?
>
> Not much; git just falls back to the default ("text") merge driver in
> that case. (This appears to have been so obvious that nobody actually
> bothered to document it?)
>
> I find myself wondering: how much commentary should go into the
> .gitattributes file, and do such files get ChangeLog entries?
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