From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11011384B4 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3059721C05E; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FC4E21C00E for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [63.142.135.68]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: titanofold) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11C7D34069F for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D60AA26C2D18; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:17:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:17:18 -0500 From: "Aaron W. Swenson" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog Message-ID: <20151102211718.GB2004@gengoff.gsmr1.local> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <5636029F.1020304@gentoo.org> <563603F7.3010707@gentoo.org> <5637C206.7080203@gentoo.org> <5637C60D.3090804@mva.name> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5637C60D.3090804@mva.name> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 007f012c-afcf-4312-abcf-93676fb3f4a6 X-Archives-Hash: 35281d7954c8eb614ee58338328cfdbd --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-11-03 02:22, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > Actually, git log understands if you specify path for it (especially > after --)... >=20 >=20 > 03.11.2015 02:05, Daniel Campbell =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > > On 11/01/2015 04:22 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > > > On 11/1/15 7:16 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > >> Ahoi, > > >> > > >> I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily > > >> accessible ChangeLogs for our packages. > > >> > > >> Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now > > >> there are some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any > > >> purpose, and the easiest way for users to figure out why > > >> something changed is to yell at the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface. > > >> So instead of grep we now need lots of patience. > > >> > > >> This does not look reasonable to me. > > >> > > >> Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people > > >> to not be curious about changes, or make them useful again? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> > > >> A Gentoo User. > > >> > > > I don't have strong feelings about this, but I'm happy with `git > > > log` to tell me what's going on with packages. I would be okay > > > with the ChangeLog files just being archived and removed. > > > > > > Is there a way for us (devs and users both) to only get `git log` > > results from a specific directory or package? I'm aware we could pipe > > git log to grep, but that seems hackish, like git has a better way to > > isolate log entries. > > > > >=20 >=20 Vadim, please don't top post. Daniel, yes, you just do: git log cat/pkg Or: git log . `git log' understands path arguments within the repo. But, that doesn't really give you the full picture. You will be better served by: git log --grep=3D --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iL4EAREKAGYFAlY30t5fFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDRGNEVENDM2QzYzRDAwQTdCNDYzQTQwMDI4 OTc2MzczNjFENjJENUQACgkQKJdjc2HWLV3tBwD+LJ+TTsAuTVoSLu0sFSdymkGs UDqHAZe4uezx4McE/pcA/is2vcXLLtYQ5ka9GQ+nnUt0fS4O1jlv+0X5xl1dfAVN =Di2b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GRPZ8SYKNexpdSJ7--