Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:23:20 +0000 Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Stephen Bennett wrote:
| > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 +0000
| > Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> wrote:
| > 
| > > Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise.
| > > One time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about
| > > using the commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog
| > > entry already exists, then write nothing to Changelog.
| > 
| > I'm sure you can manage to write a bash function to call echangelog
| > and repoman commit with the same message.
| 
| Sure, I can and the other mail shows that it is *realy* simple, but
| why should every dev write his own "script", when this could be done
| once for all?

Isn't this one of those things that's best done on a per-dev basis?
It's so trivial there's no point shipping an app that does it --
reading the associated documentation would take longer than writing
your own. Plus that way you can incorporate personalised clever things
such as auto keyword messages for arch teams

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