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From: Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Repoman to autogenerate ChangeLog entries
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:07:57
Message-Id: 4C960E13.3020702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Repoman to autogenerate ChangeLog entries by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 09/19/10 15:10, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > I assume many of us have wrapper scripts to automatically generate
3 > matching ChangeLog and CVS commit messages. When we eventually move to
4 > git the plan is for the ChangeLog to be automatically generated from
5 > git. To unify developer practices and to ease the transition to git it
6 > has been proposed to make repoman automatically generate ChangeLog
7 > entries. If you have any objections or thought please raise them. One
8 > open question is what should repoman do if there is already a
9 > modification to the ChangeLog file.
10
11 IMHO: die with an error message similar to:
12
13 !!! ChangeLog has been modified, please revert the change or pass
14 !!! --no-update-changelog to avoid automatic update.
15
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Repoman to autogenerate ChangeLog entries Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>