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From: Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] git? [was: Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs]
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 18:06:14
Message-Id: 201105012005.15957.reavertm@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] git? [was: Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs] by Eray Aslan
1 On Sunday 01 of May 2011 12:09:15 Eray Aslan wrote:
2 > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:06:47PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 > > ... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for
4 > > echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put
5 > > into committing them. That's just not worth the effort.
6 >
7 > Won't moving the tree to git will make this a moot discussion? These and
8 > similar solutions look more and more lika a band-aid to the defecencies
9 > of cvs.
10
11 No, because ChangeLogs could be dropped even now (and generated for rsync
12 using cvs2cl tool) since ebuild history is already available in CVS
13 (sources.gentoo.org). This discussion is about what tree changes are and which
14 aren't relevant enough for users to be redundantly documented in ChangeLog
15 files assuming they're to be kept for now.
16
17 --
18 regards
19 MM

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