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On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:05:56PM -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > He already included the slim Manifests in his list of items. |
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> I'm talking about 'history' not new stuff. I'm talking about writing |
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> them out of whatever is in cvs now. (I assume they are in cvs...) |
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Ah, yes, we could possibly exclude all lines other than DIST during the |
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conversion. It would mean post-processing is needed to use the tree |
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anyway, but that shouldn't be a problem. |
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> > This one will not come to pass I think. The CVS commit message is NOT |
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> > the same as the ChangeLog entry. The ChangeLog entry is for user |
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> > consumption, the commit message is for developers. |
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> if we moved away from rsync neither would be necessary. |
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We're still going to be offering rsync to users. The entire point was to |
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have the ability to have different messages for different destinations. |
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I very seldom read ChangeLog directly, but I do read commit messages via |
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the commits mailing list. |
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To give a better example, I'd like to bring up the MogileFS SVN repo |
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over at Danga. There is a CHANGES file, and it contains ONLY |
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user-visible changes, it's short and easy to read. The commit messages |
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on the other hand are longer and often include the reason behind some of |
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the changes, and various notes on the commit. There is always a commit |
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message, but only sometimes is there a CHANGES entry. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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