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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote:
>
>> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the
>> Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of
>> having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the
>> portage tree.
>
> A separate ChangeLog has the advantage that entries for trivial
> changes can be omitted. Most people wouldn't want to read entries
> about comment changes, for example. Also entries can be edited, which
> is not possible if the ChangeLog is generated from commit messages.
>
Trivial commit messages can be omitted from the final ChangeLog very
easily. We just need to decide on a token to add to the commit message
=E2=80=94 either [trivial] in the subject, or #trivial in the body, or simi=
lar
I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list
some use-cases besides editing of typos?
--=20
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla