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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the |
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>> Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of |
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>> having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the |
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>> portage tree. |
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> A separate ChangeLog has the advantage that entries for trivial |
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> changes can be omitted. Most people wouldn't want to read entries |
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> about comment changes, for example. Also entries can be edited, which |
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> is not possible if the ChangeLog is generated from commit messages. |
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Trivial commit messages can be omitted from the final ChangeLog very |
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easily. We just need to decide on a token to add to the commit message |
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— either [trivial] in the subject, or #trivial in the body, or similar |
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I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list |
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some use-cases besides editing of typos? |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla |
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