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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:06:07
Message-Id: 5637C206.7080203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog by "Anthony G. Basile"
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4 On 11/01/2015 04:22 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
5 > On 11/1/15 7:16 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
6 >> Ahoi,
7 >>
8 >> I'm getting mildly very irritated with the lack of easily
9 >> accessible ChangeLogs for our packages.
10 >>
11 >> Apparently updating them stopped some time in August, so now
12 >> there are some outdated ChangeLogs that don't really serve any
13 >> purpose, and the easiest way for users to figure out why
14 >> something changed is to yell at the clumsy gitweb.g.o interface.
15 >> So instead of grep we now need lots of patience.
16 >>
17 >> This does not look reasonable to me.
18 >>
19 >> Can we please either properly remove ChangeLogs and tell people
20 >> to not be curious about changes, or make them useful again?
21 >>
22 >> Thanks,
23 >>
24 >> A Gentoo User.
25 >>
26 > I don't have strong feelings about this, but I'm happy with `git
27 > log` to tell me what's going on with packages. I would be okay
28 > with the ChangeLog files just being archived and removed.
29 >
30
31 Is there a way for us (devs and users both) to only get `git log`
32 results from a specific directory or package? I'm aware we could pipe
33 git log to grep, but that seems hackish, like git has a better way to
34 isolate log entries.
35
36 - --
37 Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer
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