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From: Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:01:16
Message-Id: 200704211155.45072.bangert@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 >
2 > So I'd be in favour of getting rid of them, if we make sure that
3 > everybody always commits to the ChangeLog (Make it a repoman failure).
4 > Side benefit of removing the need to double-commit from the hashes
5 > changing.
6 >
7
8 i have never understood why repoman doesn't automatically put the commit
9 message into the ChangeLog.... (share your use case!)
10
11 taking this one more step ahead, the ChangeLog could perhaps be made a
12 virtual file, which on demand is extracted from VCS metadata... now
13 _that_ would save some bandwidth and space (no numbers, sorry).
14
15 i am all for the removal of $Header:$, btw. the current double commits
16 simply suck!
17
18 regards
19 Thilo

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Re: [gentoo-dev] $Header:$ and ebuilds Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>