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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:07:54
Message-Id: CADqQcK7COZTp01zVdvX+aRPSPCqUw9FN81a+9DHcbu4UBwzBGA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by Markos Chandras
1 On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
2 > In my opinion, we do not need to care about typos etc. We are human
3 > beings, so mistakes are part of our lives. Being able to fix
4 > post-generated changelogs will increase the size of $VCS since
5 > Changelogs need to be placed to $VCS for editing after generation and
6 > having a smart deduplication algorithm on the server side to filter
7 > duplicate messages. This is a bit stupid. If you make a mistake on
8 > your commit message, that's fine. Be careful next time.
9 >
10
11 I agree. Plus, if we use git-notes to *append* to ChangeLog entries
12 (in case you left out important information), we've covered all bases
13 as far as I'm concerned.
14
15 --
16 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
17
18 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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