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diff --git a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md index 1012a4c9c9..2980b775fb 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md @@ -96,17 +96,14 @@ you can use `git describe --contains <sha1 of commit>`. If at all possible, try to create this file in the same commit where you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other branch will use for the lifetime of your change. To verify the format of the changes file, -you can use `make check-changes`. +you can use `make check-changes`. This is run automatically as part of +`make check` -- if it fails, we must fix it before we release. These +checks are implemented in `scripts/maint/lintChanges.py`. When we go to make a release, we will concatenate all the entries in changes to make a draft changelog, and clear the directory. We'll then edit the draft changelog into a nice readable format. -To make sure that stuff is in the right format, we use -scripts/maint/lintChanges.py to check the changes files for -(superficial) validity. You can run this script on your own changes -files! - What needs a changes file? * A not-exhaustive list: Anything that might change user-visible |