[gentoo-science] Re: ChangeLog in the overlay

[Nicolas Bock]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Marius Brehler
<marbre@××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> On 10/13/2015 02:08 PM, Nicolas Bock wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Marius Brehler
>> <marbre@××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/10/2015 12:35 PM, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> What is your opinion on dropping the ChangeLog in the overlay in
>>>> favour of the git log as it has been done in the tree?
>>>>
>>>> Justin
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I prefer to drop the ChangeLogs. Since we give a lot advices and many
>>> contributes push their changes incremental without using 'repo-commit
>>> -t', or re-commit changed ebuilds, ChangeLogs often blow up. For example
>>> see [1], which is AFAIR not the worst one.
>>> Regards
>>>
>> Hi Marius,
>>
>> out of curiosity: What does the -t option do? And how does one
>> re-commit a change using repoman?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick
>
>
> Hi,
> the -t option prevents adding a ChangeLog entry:
>
>   -t, --trivial           trivial changes (do not add a ChangeLog entry)
>
>
> With re-commiting, I mean one could reset without loosing the
> modifications with 'git reset --soft HEAD^' (or by specifying a commit
> hash/tag/e.g.), apply the new changes/caring for the annotations and
> than just executing 'repo-commit <previous commit message>' again.
> I hope that answers your question, if not please let me know.
> Regards
>
Thanks, that explains it! I missed that you are using 'repo-commit'
and not 'repoman' :) Is repo-commit recommended over repoman?

> Marius