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From: Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:45:03
Message-Id: 4BC45930.2020703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation by Peter Volkov
1 On 13-04-2010 13:25, Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Втр, 06/04/2010 в 07:43 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan пишет:
3 >> * It makes zero sense to manually manage ChangeLogs in git[1]
4 >
5 > Once I had stupid cut&paste mistake and entered wrong credits in
6 > ChangeLog. I don't see how to resolve this issue in case ChangeLog's
7 > will be generated from git log and until somebody suggests how to edit
8 > ChangeLogs generated from git I think have to keep ChangeLogs in
9 > gentoo-x86.
10 >
11
12 If in kernel.org they don't seem to need to edit changelogs, why would
13 we? Between all of us developers, how many needed to change a ChangeLog
14 after commit? I guess we would be pretty low in number.
15
16 And lets not forget that we can --amend commits (log included) until we
17 push them to origin.
18
19 - Angelo