Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Lance Albertson]

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:37:48PM +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>
>>Do you read every time the whole ChangeLog ?
>>
>>If not, generally, how much of it ?
>
>
> I often find myself grepping through the entire ChangeLog too see when
> and who introduced a particular change in an ebuild - but I normally
> do this in my CVS check-out.
>
> I'm also for telling the users to rsync exclude the ChangeLogs if they
> don't want them instead of getting rid of them or crippling them.

I don't think that's really a solution. That's just a way to minimize
what they get. If you really want to look at a solution, you should
reduce whats actually in the changelog. All the changelogs are in CVS,
and if someone wanted to go look back at any changes, they can either
look at viewcvs or (hopefully soon), grab it via anoncvs. I bet you >80%
of things in the changelogs are for things that are in the attic. I say
we need a way to either have echangelog (or another script) to clean out
changelog entries for things that are in the attic (and make sense to
take out). Maybe another option would be to remove any 'version bump'
type entries that are old as well.

I just don't see the point of keeping changelog entries for stuff that
isn't even viewable in the tree anymore. We have CVS, the record will be
there, lets use it. We can't cater to every user out there, but come up
with a solid solution that makes sense and still gives them some form of
ability to look back.

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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager

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