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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:03:03 -0700
From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit`
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> stop keeping ChangeLog files in CVS and instead, let them be generated=20
> automagically by the cvs server using the last <arbitrary number> of comm=
it=20
> messages.  if you really want to keep a commit message out of the changel=
og,=20
> then we come up with a simple policy of prefixing the message with a peri=
od=20
> (to keep it hidden :P).
I'm in favour of this. As an upstream developer of phpMyAdmin, we've
used this procedure for a long time, using cvs2cl for this purpose (see
my name in the cvs2cl contributers list as well ;-).

We'd need to add a bit of code to put in the new ebuild extra stuff,
but other than that, it should work out of the box.

> logic:
Question:
- are CVS commit messages UTF8 safe?

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