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From: Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Repoman to autogenerate ChangeLog entries
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:08:01
Message-Id: AANLkTikTK67BkcJNewLZk7PyQcvw_ZbuR3a3bdssjtSE@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Repoman to autogenerate ChangeLog entries by Krzysztof Pawlik
1 On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 15:20, Krzysztof Pawlik <nelchael@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 09/19/10 15:10, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> I assume many of us have wrapper scripts to automatically generate
4 >> matching ChangeLog and CVS commit messages. When we eventually move to
5 >> git the plan is for the ChangeLog to be automatically generated from
6 >> git. To unify developer practices and to ease the transition to git it
7 >> has been proposed to make repoman automatically generate ChangeLog
8 >> entries. If you have any objections or thought please raise them. One
9 >> open question is what should repoman do if there is already a
10 >> modification to the ChangeLog file.
11 >
12 > IMHO: die with an error message similar to:
13 >
14 > !!! ChangeLog has been modified, please revert the change or pass
15 > !!! --no-update-changelog to avoid automatic update.
16
17 Sounds good to me (both the idea and dying explicitly on modified changelog).
18
19 Cheers,
20
21 Dirkjan