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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:14:55
Message-Id: 20090411T181035Z@curie.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Splitting gentoo-x86 repository for easier consumption by Caleb Cushing
1 On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:05:56PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
2 > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
3 > > He already included the slim Manifests in his list of items.
4 > I'm talking about 'history' not new stuff. I'm talking about writing
5 > them out of whatever is in cvs now. (I assume they are in cvs...)
6 Ah, yes, we could possibly exclude all lines other than DIST during the
7 conversion. It would mean post-processing is needed to use the tree
8 anyway, but that shouldn't be a problem.
9
10 > > This one will not come to pass I think. The CVS commit message is NOT
11 > > the same as the ChangeLog entry. The ChangeLog entry is for user
12 > > consumption, the commit message is for developers.
13 > if we moved away from rsync neither would be necessary.
14 We're still going to be offering rsync to users. The entire point was to
15 have the ability to have different messages for different destinations.
16 I very seldom read ChangeLog directly, but I do read commit messages via
17 the commits mailing list.
18
19 To give a better example, I'd like to bring up the MogileFS SVN repo
20 over at Danga. There is a CHANGES file, and it contains ONLY
21 user-visible changes, it's short and easy to read. The commit messages
22 on the other hand are longer and often include the reason behind some of
23 the changes, and various notes on the commit. There is always a commit
24 message, but only sometimes is there a CHANGES entry.
25
26 --
27 Robin Hugh Johnson
28 Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
29 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
30 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85

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