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From: Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit`
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:05:43
Message-Id: 43028CD9.6010308@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit` by Jeremy Huddleston
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4 Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
5 > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 18:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 >
7 >>suggestion:
8 >>stop keeping ChangeLog files in CVS and instead, let them be generated
9 >>automagically by the cvs server using the last <arbitrary number> of commit
10 >>messages. if you really want to keep a commit message out of the changelog,
11 >>then we come up with a simple policy of prefixing the message with a period
12 >>(to keep it hidden :P).
13 >
14 >
15 > I like the idea. This should force people to actually make their cvs
16 > commit statements worth something.
17
18 Also forcing a Changelog syntax makes portage's -l feature useful, since
19 it attempts to parse the Changelog to provide sane entries...but some
20 Changelogs don't seem to be in the correct syntax that the -l
21 functionality requires. With a changelog standard this tool will be
22 much more useful.
23
24 - -Alec Warner (antarus)
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