[gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog - Infra Response; update 2015/11/11, potential impact to 30min rsync cycle

[Ryan Hill <rhill@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:12:28 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Jason Zaman wrote:  
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:46:19AM +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:  
> >> How should one report bugs ? to infra or portage ?
> >> From my just rsynced tree, I see changelogs in reverse order: oldest
> >> come first, latest come last  
> 
> > NOTABUG, it was changed because rsync can deal really well with
> > appending to the end of files. rsyncing a file where things were
> > things were added to the beginning of the file means rsync will copy
> > the whole file from scratch which is pretty sub-optimal.  
> 
> Our ChangeLogs were always in newest-first order, so why would this
> suddenly be an issue?
> 
> Also readability for users should take priority over technical
> matters. Newest first is the usual order (e.g. it agrees with the
> default of git log), and ChangeLog having different order from
> ChangeLog-20* seems rather confusing to me.

I imagine it breaks emerge --changelog output as well?


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