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On 11/05/2015 12:39 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:18:07 +0000 |
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>> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>> What would be the problem with renaming? IMHO it would be nicer to |
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>>>> keep the ChangeLog name for the autogenerated files and rename the |
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>>>> ones from CVS. We already have files renamed to ChangeLog-<year> |
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>>>> when they became to large, so we could just use ChangeLog-2015 to |
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>>>> stay within that scheme. |
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>>> If we rename the old ChangeLog files from CVS to ChangeLog-2015, then |
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>>> we'll have both 'ChangeLog-2015' and 'ChangeLog' (generated from Git) |
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>>> containing 2015 entries. Worse, what happens when we hit 2016? Do we |
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>>> merge the old files? |
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>> It's not perfectly clean but I don't see any problem here: |
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>> ChangeLog-2015 : all ChangeLog from CVS |
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>> ChangeLog: autogenerated from git |
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>> if/when there is a need to split git changelogs, autogenerated |
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>> changelogs will start from say, Jan. 1st 2016, and previous changes |
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>> will now be static. Merging CVS2015 and git2015 changelogs is just a |
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>> matter of running a script. Or just skip splitting them for 2016, and |
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>> start splitting in 2017, so that ChangeLog-2015 is CVS ones, |
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>> ChangeLog-2016 is git logs from Aug. 8. 2015 to Dec. 31 2016. |
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>> IMHO this is still better than having ChangeLog stopping in 2015 and |
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>> ChangeLog.git starting from this date: Having ChangeLog-2015 from CVS |
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>> still carries partial information on the timeline. |
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> +1 |
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> You said it better than I could have. |
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> Ulrich |
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yeah, +1 on that too. I am not too bothered with the name to be honest. |
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However, using 'ChangeLog' for git logs sounds like something most of us |
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and users are familiar with already so that should work. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras |