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Dnia 2014-09-15, o godz. 15:55:35 |
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"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> On 09/15/14 15:30, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> >> On 14-09-2014 16:56:24 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >>> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> >>>> So, I don't really have a problem with your design. I still question |
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> >>>> whether we still need to be generating changelogs - they seem |
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> >>>> incredibly redundant. But, if people really want a redundant copy of |
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> >>>> the git log, whatever... |
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> >>> I don't want them too. However, I'm pretty sure people will bikeshed |
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> >>> this to death if we kill them... Especially that rsync has no git log. |
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> >>> Not that many users make real use of ChangeLogs, esp. considering |
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> >>> how useless messages often are there... |
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> >> Council had some discussions on this topic: |
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> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20111108-summary.txt |
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> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20111011-summary.txt |
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> >> |
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> >> Conclusion back then was that ChangeLog files need to stay. |
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> > I would have no problem with the council revisiting/changing this. |
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> > |
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> > I tend to agree that the ChangeLogs in the portage tree will be |
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> > obsoleted when we switch to git because git's logging facilities are |
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> > much easier to use than those in CVS. Not to mention how much smaller |
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> > the portage tree would be without ChangeLogs. |
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> If the argument is that there are no Changelogs in rsync, then let's |
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> write git hooks to generate them when the repository is mirrored to the |
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> rsync host. The only problem I see is with this is then adding |
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> ChangeLog to the manifest and gpg signing it which has to be done at the |
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> developer's side. But, I think the tree that users get from rsync |
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> should have the logs. Having *both* a ChangeLog file and git log is |
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> redundant. |
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Can't we just kill rsync then? The whole ChangeLog seems to take more |
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effort than the actual benefit it gives. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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