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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:35:29AM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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>> What do you mean by reordering? From what I see from generating |
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>> ChangeLog files from both CVS as well as SVN (prefix-tree overlay), |
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>> there is no difference in time, and hardly in message. Just things like |
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>> "[this is a placeholder, please ignore]" show up. |
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> CVS and SVN have global order, hence their ability to create changelogs |
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> that are always growing in a single direction. Git has no global order |
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> when merges are involved. If I merge in a commit made months ago, where |
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> is the correct place for it in the generated changelog? When the |
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> generated changelog is generated from scratch, where does it go? Does it |
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> stay in the same place after more merges? |
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I could've sworn we had decided to disallow merge commits because of |
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this problem, the noise it creates, and the unnecessarily complicated |
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history it would create. There's no value in preserving exact history |
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for the portage tree. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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