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From: Ryan Hill <rhill@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog - Infra Response; update 2015/11/11, potential impact to 30min rsync cycle
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:57:44
Message-Id: 20151115020140.1af1f5ff@caribou.gateway.pace.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog - Infra Response; update 2015/11/11, potential impact to 30min rsync cycle by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:12:28 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Jason Zaman wrote:
5 >
6 > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:46:19AM +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
7 > >> How should one report bugs ? to infra or portage ?
8 > >> From my just rsynced tree, I see changelogs in reverse order: oldest
9 > >> come first, latest come last
10 >
11 > > NOTABUG, it was changed because rsync can deal really well with
12 > > appending to the end of files. rsyncing a file where things were
13 > > things were added to the beginning of the file means rsync will copy
14 > > the whole file from scratch which is pretty sub-optimal.
15 >
16 > Our ChangeLogs were always in newest-first order, so why would this
17 > suddenly be an issue?
18 >
19 > Also readability for users should take priority over technical
20 > matters. Newest first is the usual order (e.g. it agrees with the
21 > default of git log), and ChangeLog having different order from
22 > ChangeLog-20* seems rather confusing to me.
23
24 I imagine it breaks emerge --changelog output as well?
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28 Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk
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