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From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit`
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:48:44
Message-Id: 1124286349.26249.50.camel@sponge.fungus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] generating ChangeLog files automatically from `cvs commit` by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:04 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > it was part joke and part seriousness ... i already have my commits scripted
3 > with echangelog/repoman, but that isnt the point
4
5 Ok - a bit hard to tell that you were joking there...
6
7 > i delete one version for being old, stabilize another ebuild, and add yet
8 > another ebuild as a rev bump
9
10 Those are three different things and should be treated as such - also
11 when committing.
12
13 > which does not matter if you commit individual files firest with different
14 > messages before running your bash funcs
15
16 Committing files without using repoman?
17
18 > it also pollutes the cvs log history for files ... if i make different fixes
19 > to different files but only commit with one message, you easily get a lot of
20 > noise
21
22 Same goes for the ChangeLog: if you do multiple commits with your
23 proposal, all commits get their own ChangeLog entry.
24
25 > not everyone uses echangelog
26 [snip]
27 > it does, but not everyone uses echangelog
28
29 Why not?
30
31 > heaven forbid you get a joke and laugh once in a while
32
33 Jokes and sarcasm doesn't work well in e-mails, sorry.
34
35 ./Brix
36 --
37 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
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