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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit`
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:06:07
Message-Id: 20050816230303.GA24818@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit` by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:18:29PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > stop keeping ChangeLog files in CVS and instead, let them be generated
3 > automagically by the cvs server using the last <arbitrary number> of commit
4 > messages. if you really want to keep a commit message out of the changelog,
5 > then we come up with a simple policy of prefixing the message with a period
6 > (to keep it hidden :P).
7 I'm in favour of this. As an upstream developer of phpMyAdmin, we've
8 used this procedure for a long time, using cvs2cl for this purpose (see
9 my name in the cvs2cl contributers list as well ;-).
10
11 We'd need to add a bit of code to put in the new ebuild extra stuff,
12 but other than that, it should work out of the box.
13
14 > logic:
15 Question:
16 - are CVS commit messages UTF8 safe?
17
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