Congratulations!<p>Before GCC existed, UNIX vendors used to sell the C compiler + tools in expensive separate SDK, the same way the OSS community complains about certain companies nowadays.<p>Without it, the way we develop software today would look really different.
This sounds like an excellent occasion for the GCC maintainers to consider how revision control software has progressed in the last 25 years, and to re-evaluate the utility of the ChangeLog file; a manually maintained an "undo list" for all commits.
The revision history go back almost that long (November 1988): <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest" rel="nofollow">https://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest</a>