From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NzdE7-0006ty-BI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:56:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0BA7E073B; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.88]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 908B7E06D8 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 21:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8372 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2010 21:55:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (77.83.158.75) by p3plsmtpa01-08.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.88) with ESMTP; 07 Apr 2010 21:55:46 -0000 From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:54:34 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6-night-elf; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <201004071954.11243.hwoarang@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004080054.34256.hwoarang@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 09cf71cc-588c-4d98-b76b-380e9fe9327e X-Archives-Hash: 878306db01322cd97e775fbd0a264819 On Wednesday 07 April 2010 21:41:49 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 05:13:02 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > > Just a question: > > > > Why do we even need to care about ChangeLog files? Can't we just use the > > git commit message to generate logs? E.g run a script on server side > > which will read the whole git shortlog and generate a changelog every > > $timeframe? > > You seem to have missed the gist of the situation. I'm quoting it here > again to highlight it: > > * It makes zero sense to manually manage ChangeLogs in git[1] > [snip] > * Proposed is to generate ChangeLogs from git commits on the rsync > server side when metadata generation is done > - Scripts to do this already exist[1] > [snip] > > 1. http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog Ah you are right. It seems that I missed that e-mail on my inbox. Thanks for posting it again. It seems we are on the same page :) -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org