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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
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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