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On 24-08-2011 07:35:05 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> The means of changelog generation needs to be driven by Council, since |
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> they are the ones that are demanding changelogs for every tiny change. |
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> I proposed shortlog as something that is simple and works for now. |
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> Regardless of generated changelogs or them being manually written, the |
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> only way that we can ensure that changelogs don't contain any reordering |
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> is by either hand-merging them (then we might as well hand-write them), |
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> or taking snapshots of shortlog changelogs (which can lead to dupes |
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> after some merges). |
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What do you mean by reordering? From what I see from generating |
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ChangeLog files from both CVS as well as SVN (prefix-tree overlay), |
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there is no difference in time, and hardly in message. Just things like |
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"[this is a placeholder, please ignore]" show up. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |