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On Aug 16, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> logic: |
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> - i'm lazy |
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> - i hate typing the samething twice (yes, bash scripting with |
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> echangelog can |
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> kind of take care of this) ... it doesnt handle if you want to use |
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> different |
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> commit messages for different files |
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> - shrinks ChangeLog size for packages which have been around a |
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> very long time |
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> - forces cvs log messages to actually be worthwhile to read and makes |
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> browsing cvs history much nicer (it's very easy to look at the |
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> differences |
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> between two files and match up a good commit message rather than |
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> trying to |
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> figure out what message in the ChangeLog goes with it, assuming |
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> there is one) |
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> - easily standardize ChangeLog format wrt to header, copyrights, |
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> licensing, |
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> message formatting, name/date format |
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> - generate dates in UTC down to the second rather than having devs |
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> hand type |
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> them in their local timezone for just the current day |
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> - maybe some other things i havent thought of |
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> - i'm lazy |
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Me likey. |
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--Kito |
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> -mike |
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