From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:11:49 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t2j8b4c83ad1004071141pc0653f4k9993a8a7b8b75fa5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004071954.11243.hwoarang@gentoo.org>
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> 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
--
~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-07 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 2:13 [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-06 6:41 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-06 7:01 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-06 11:40 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-04-07 9:58 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-07 10:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-04-07 14:36 ` Richard Freeman
2010-06-21 19:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2010-04-06 7:28 ` [gentoo-dev] [git migration] Proposition for tags supported by git hooks Maciej Mrozowski
2010-04-06 8:00 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-06 13:06 ` [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation Richard Freeman
2010-04-06 22:21 ` Robin H. Johnson
2010-04-07 10:05 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-07 6:25 ` Hans de Graaff
2010-04-07 7:55 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2010-04-07 16:54 ` Markos Chandras
2010-04-07 18:41 ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2010-04-07 21:54 ` Markos Chandras
2010-04-13 11:25 ` Peter Volkov
2010-04-13 11:44 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-13 11:48 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-13 13:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2010-04-13 13:35 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-13 16:12 ` Matti Bickel
2010-04-13 16:22 ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-04-13 16:23 ` Alec Warner
2010-04-13 16:33 ` Matti Bickel
2010-04-14 1:47 ` Richard Freeman
2010-04-14 6:39 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2010-04-14 9:08 ` Matti Bickel
2010-04-13 16:47 ` Peter Volkov
2010-05-02 15:13 ` Jim Ramsay
2010-06-24 18:59 ` Luca Barbato
2010-06-24 20:43 ` Olivier Crête
2010-06-25 8:45 ` Peter Volkov
2010-06-25 8:49 ` Arun Raghavan
2010-06-25 9:00 ` Peter Volkov
2010-06-26 5:55 ` Olivier Crête
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