From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNkjc-0002hG-AP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:11:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8280E0613; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C5AE0613 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (unknown [77.246.104.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EC3643D2 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask From: Peter Volkov To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20090115042441.GA556@hermes> References: <496943D4.4040402@gentoo.org> <20090111093103.GJ30657@shiva> <1231756941.12190.77.camel@localhost> <496B23ED.2060002@allenjb.me.uk> <20090115042441.GA556@hermes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:10:47 +0300 Message-Id: <1232097047.12190.2270.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4eb348a3-eb25-420d-bf1b-0cf9d3afa4b7 X-Archives-Hash: 7f4265b8a374fdac1a92f92f9dd59fab =D0=92 =D0=A1=D1=80=D0=B4, 14/01/2009 =D0=B2 20:24 -0800, Donnie Berkholz= =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > On 11:05 Mon 12 Jan , AllenJB wrote: > > In my opinion the cvs commit log and the ChangeLog serve 2 different = =20 > > purposes. The cvs log is for developers while the ChangeLog is for =20 > > users. While the cvs log will likely just want to explain what change= =20 > > was made, the ChangeLog should explain why it was made. >=20 > So if you want to know both, you need to look in 2 places? That doesn't= =20 > seem very nice to me.=20 We do not distribute portage tree trough cvs and rsync does not have ChangeLog's. But even with cvs, cvs log is very slow ... > Also in a distributed VCS, we'd want to generate=20 > ChangeLogs from the commit logs True. But portage tree is still CVS and until this happened we need document all changes in ChangeLog's. --=20 Peter.