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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 03:55:59PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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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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I realize I'm pretty late on this discussion, but I also would vote for |
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disallowing merge commits in the portage tree. |
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William |
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