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On Thursday, June 02, 2011 05:13:38 Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> Simple pros I see mentioned: |
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additional pro: automatic culling of information no longer relevant. entries |
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dating back to 2002 rarely are useful today. we could easily implement a cap |
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via date, size, files still in the tree, # of entries, etc... |
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reality is, if developers want to see what's going on, go to the VCS and get |
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the full history. |
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> Simple cons I see mentioned: |
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> - useless information on removals of ebuilds/files |
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if people are forcing this crap either way, i dont see it being a con |
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> - useless information on whitespace changes |
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could easily be mitigated by prefixing the message with '[trivial]' and then |
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the generator skips those |
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> - inability to edit ChangeLog entries (typos, bug refs, etc.) |
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in practice, i rarely see this being an issue. it certainly hasnt impeded any |
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of the huge projects out there (many of which are bigger than Gentoo) that |
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only have a changelog in the VCS history. typos happen, no one cares, and |
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people get over it. |
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> 1) it appears echangelog messages more than just a couple of times |
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> differ from the repoman commit messages; sometimes useful information |
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> is lost when just using the VCS logs |
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just bite our lip and move on. as time moves forward, the desync will become |
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relegated to history. |
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> 2) typo fixing on VCS-generated logs is sometimes necessary, but |
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> probably impossible |
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in practice, it's rarely (if ever) necessary |
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> 4) package moves might lose all history for essentially the same files |
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this is a technical matter of the generator that can be overcome |
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> > -# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-vcs/git/ChangeLog,v 1.95 |
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> > 2011/05/31 06:4 7:22 grobian Exp $ |
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> > +# $Header: this/file/is/a/generated/ChangeLog,v 1.1 2011/06/02 09:47:14 |
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> > cvsps2changelog Exp $ |
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> The $Header line is likely going to be useless, and probably is best |
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> removed. Is there something useful that can be substituted here? |
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the VCS ids used to generate the log (and perhaps their associated dates) |
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> sys-devel/gcc-config: |
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> > - 16 Mar 2008; Christian Heim <phreak@g.o> Manifest: |
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> > - Fixing the Manifest (emerge is complaining about missing |
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> > - $FILESDIR/wrapper-1.5.0.o). |
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> This entry disappears because Manifest and ChangeLog changes are ignored. |
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which is fine |
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-mike |
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